How much off a tree does it take to make a piece of paper?
Question:in school teachers always told me to stop wasting paper that i was killing a tree. i was just wondering how much of a tree does it take to make a piece of paper
Answers:
I live nearby one of the largest producers of paper in Canada, their paper is used in newspapers, magazines, statonary all over the USA.
A lot of the wood that's in our paper comes from diseased or dying trees, branches, and tree farms which grow the trees especially for this purpose.
Accordingly, making paper can and does serve the environment as it uses lots of the residue which might otherwise be burned, not to speak of the employment which is a byproduct of forestry.
Woods come in different varieties, only some of them are suitable for high grade pulp which is then made into paper so there's no formula for saying how many sheets of paper can be made from one tree.
Most trees are cut for lumber but those that are less than 8 inches in diameter may be diverted for making pulp.
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A cord of wood is approximately 8 feet wide, 4 feet deep, and 4 feet high. A cord of air-dried, dense hardwood (oak, hickory, etc.) weighs roughly 2 tons, about 15-20 percent of which is water
.It has been estimated that one cord of this wood will yield one of these approximate quantities of products:
• 1,000-2,000 pounds of paper (depending on the process)
• 942 100-page, hard-cover books
• 61,370 No. 10 business envelopes
• 4,384,000 commemorative-sized postage stamps
• 460,000 personal checks
• 1,200 copies of National Geographic
• 2,700 copies of an average daily newspaper
Source: A Tree for Each American, American Forest & Paper Association, Washington, DC
: Each year, the U.S. forest community plants some 1.5 billion seedlings. That’s an average of more than 4 million new trees planted every day!
More than 5 new trees are planted each year for every man, woman, and child in America, and millions more regrow naturally from seeds and sprouts.There are more trees in America today than there were 70 years ago.Remember! Trees are a renewable resource that will keep growing and growing.
Unlike nonrenewable resources such as minerals, forests regenerate naturally, and good forest management by companies, governments, and landowners increases their abundance.
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Copy this out and show it to your teacher the next time she crawls up your back
well it depends on the measurment of the paper
I hate trees. Birds sit in trees. Birds poop on my car. Cut down trees.. no more poop.. clean car.
not much
it depends how big the paper is...or in other words the measurement of the paper...hmm...
barely none but think of it this way.what if every kid told by a teacher not to waste paper listenend..there might b mroe trees but anyway tell ure teacher to get real...she wants to b real evironmental then tell her not to drive...ugh i hate sum ppl
I can tell you how much comes from a cord of wood, which is a pile of wood 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet, or 128 cubic feet of wood. One cord of wood makes 89,870 sheets of letterhead bond paper.
That means one sheet of paper is .0014242 cubic feet of wood.
That would be 2.461 cubic inches of wood.
It is probably a little less since a cord of wood has a lot of air space in it. Maybe 2 cubic inches is closer.
Well that depends on the size of the paper. However, the trees are shredded and beat to a pulp. Then they're thinly flattened out to the size of the paper, and then they dry. You're not killing the tree, because in order to make the paper, the tree is already dead. =D
I hope this gives you some idea:
A cord of wood equals a pile of wood 4 feet long, 4 feet tall, and 8 feet wide -- and contains about 80 cubic feet of solid wood.
One cord of wood yields -
7,500,000 toothpicks
1,000 to 2,000 pounds of paper (depending on the process)
942 one-pound books
61,370 envelopes
4,384,000 postage stamps
460,000 personal checks
89,870 sheets of paper
1,200 copies of National Geographic
2,700 copies of the average daily paper
250 copies of the Sunday New York Times
30 rocking chairs
12 dining room tables (one table seats 8
When they make paper they use cut up pieces of tree. so there is no way of knowing.
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