How many trees do all the newspapers use up daily, worldwide?

Question

Paper can only be recycled to 4-6 times.

Answer 1

From what you stated that means that each TREE is used 6 times. Then the waste is used as organic mulch.That is damned efficient. Name any other bio matter that is better.

Answer 2

they use recycled paper now adays to make newspapers.

Answer 3

the 1st reviewer is right

Answer 4

If trees were not renewable it might matter more. The lumber company's have a vested interest in keeping "TREES ALIVE" wouldn't you agree? If the unindustrialized countries didn't learn from mistakes and replant and revitalize forests, and the indigenous people have little or no way to take action and do something about it, then what happens there is worth... what would you say... worth war? worth finical aide to their government? worth us giving them some of our trees? trading trees for pineapples?  

Instead of asking such a lame question that "begs for someone to cry" about the forests, and spreads the message "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO??? WERE RUNNING OUT OF TREES ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! Why not offer a solution. Make computers so the Internet can replace papers. WHOOPS seems we have to have plastic for that and I bet your smart enough to know we get plastic from ... yep OIL. And we have to drill for that but not in the ole USA. Might make our city's dirty, might hurt the enviroment, might cause oil prices to come down so we could afford to give ideas and show caring in person or drive the price of plastics and thus computers down so these po people in undeveloped nations can afford them.. hey wait a minute this might actually create jos and capital for people and freedom... naw thats too grandious.

Did you consider how to best clean your bottom and not use a tree or water to make tolietpaper or wash off? What about taking a bath or shower. Using clean water to wash with WHAT KIND OF IMPACT IS THIS HAVING ON THE ENVIOMENT????  Woops getting personal now, sorry.

Answer 5

Why should it matter? They only use farm grown pulpwood trees. Anything else would be too expensive.

Oh, right. They also recycle a lot.

Answer 6

world wide there is a lot of variation. There is still a lot of clear felling of virgin forests going on in different countries, Australia for one, and Papua New Guinea for another. All for pulpwood for paper products. Now recycled paper is only good for so many rounds and different countries have different rules. Have seen some newpapers on recycled paper that has clearly been used many times. But most of the newsprint in this country is new paper and no recycling is done at all. (there is no paper manufacturing in this country) As one contributor pointed out 6 runs is good going for average life of paper fibres, but not every country manages that much. With each cycle ne fibre has to be added to keep the paper together, each cycle of pulping, handling and bleaching reduces fibre length and strength, without fresh fibres it would all fall apart.

So to say zero tress would be quite false. At best one sixth of what it used to be before recycling became common.

Do the sums, how much circulation for each paper, times av weight of one paper x 5(only 20% of tree ends up as paper) and you get total tonnes of tree, divide by 6 (optimistically) to get weight of new trees needed for one days papers. Assume 3 tonnes per tree to get numbers of trees.

Maybe assume 7,000,000,000 people, assume 1 in a 100 read a paper every day, = 70,000,000 papers. Assume 500g per paper, =

3,500,000kg of paper or 35,000 tonnes of paper a day, or roughly

12,000 trees a day!  You can play around with different assumptions and get different figures but which ever way you do it, its a lot of trees! Every DAY!

Answer 7

32 lakh

Answer 8

i think newspapers are recycled for the new newspaper

Answer 9

For today none. but from the past yes

Answer 10

newspapers are made from recycled paper so none really.

Answer 11

I's recycled paper.

Answer 12

In my town, it is illegal to throw paper in the bin now. We have to put it in a green plastic bag to be picked up once a month.

I think in the future, news papers will be read on the net.