Re: Every day roughly 1.9 million trees are cut down to make traditional toilet paper

On 11/26/22 20:52, Gator Golf wrote:
> Every day roughly 1.9 million trees — enough to cover about 45 Sydney
> Opera Houses — are cut down to make traditional toilet paper out of virgin
> wood pulp, according to a new report which looked into how consumer
> choices can impact the environment.
> 
> More than 60 per cent of people recently surveyed across Australia, the
> United Kingdom and United States were unaware of how their choice in
> toilet paper contributes to global deforestation, the Toilet Paper
> Environmental Sustainability Report found.
> 
> It's estimated a person goes through 127 rolls a year, adding up to 42
> million tonnes worldwide. And that's leading to the loss of 700 million
> trees annually, the data found.
> 
> <https://www.9news.com.au/world/earth-day-2022-toilet-paper-found-to-
> contribute-to-mass-deforestation-data-reveals/a6b0763b-54a6-4f66-8a21-
> 8b3fbad064b2>


https://twosidesna.org/US/Paper-and-Sustainable-Forests-some-great-facts-to-note/
[...]
3. U.S. made paper comes mostly from private working forests that 
support 2.4 million jobs and $99 billion in payroll.

A second NAFO report on “The Economic Impact of Privately-Owned Forests 
in the United States” reports that public and private timberlands are 
responsible for employing 2.8 million people, who received payroll in 
the amount of $102 billion.  Private timberland makes up 73% of the 
timberland base in 32 states, but it is responsible for more than 85% of 
the economic contribution.
[...]

Tell me again about how paper causes deforestation.