Tree Hugger – Recycling box?

Question

Does anyone know where in the UK I can get a ‘tree hugger’ box? It’s a box which you fill up with paper and when you’ve done it so many times you’ve saved a tree.

Thanks.

Answer 1

trees are crops so when grown and harvested on rotation it's not a problem.  feel free to use all the paper you want.   yes, i'm being serious.

Answer 2

Surely recycling the paper is it's own reward, why do you need to know how many trees you've saved?

Answer 3

if you don't fill it, you have also saved a tree........".sorry "

Answer 4

No, maybe you can just use a "round file". Code name for waste basket then recycle in it enough until you recycle a trees worth of paper. Otherwise save the trees by giving them hugs. If you'd go that far I mean.

Answer 5

I don't know where you can get a "tree hugger" box but you can definitely make one yourself.  

In the USA (and probably in the UK), office paper comes in reams.  1 ream = 500 sheets.  These reams come in boxes of 10.  10 reams = 0.6 trees so 1 tree equals 16.67 reams which is a little more than a box and a half.  

Just take an empty paper box and fill it up two times to equal a tree.  I say two times because it is unlikely that you will be neatly packing the old paper into the box.  This allows for some air.

You could also weigh your paper.  As an average, 83.3 lbs. (or about 38 kg) equals one tree.  

Now there are many other factors.  The type of paper, whether it is partially recycled paper, how well you pack the paper in the box, and how big the tree is.  

Some more specific calculations are as follows:

1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees

1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees

A "pallet" of copier paper (20-lb. sheet weight, or 20#) contains 40 cartons and weighs 1 ton. Therefore,

1 carton (10 reams) of 100% virgin copier paper uses .6 trees

1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets

1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree (and those add up quickly!)

1 ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines like National Geographic and many others) uses a little more than 15 trees (15.36)

1 ton of coated, lower-end virgin magazine paper (used for newsmagazines and most catalogs) uses nearly 8 trees (7.68)

How do you calculate how many trees are saved by using recycled paper?

(1) Multiply the number of trees needed to make a ton of the kind of paper you're talking about (groundwood or freesheet), then

(2) multiply by the percent recycled content in the paper.

For example,

1 ton (40 cartons) of 30% postconsumer content copier paper saves 7.2 trees

1 ton of 50% postconsumer content copier paper saves 12 trees.

(Taken from the source listed below)

Answer 6

contact however would pick up the box or if you have to take it to a drop off site contact them they would be able to set you up.If for an office they could set you up with a possible commercial container.If all else fails contact your local government councillor they might help

Answer 7

see above answer