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

On 11/28/2022 1:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:31:44 -0800, Phil Omdahl
> <jaques.idiot.pal@number1> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/27/2022 2:23 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> 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/
>>
>> Paper industry advertising page.
> 
> And yet the paper and timber industries were among the first American
> industries to get on board with conservation even without federal
> environmental restrictions.   Tree farming has been going on for
> decades at least.
> 
> The two big ag crops where I live are cattle ranching and tree
> farming.

The same with Christmas trees.  The sellers don't go out and decimate
our national forests, they run Christmas tree farms that are constantly
replenished.  Some people just don't understand that you can grow trees
as a crop just like wheat, grapes, etc.