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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yes, this. Trees/paper are a renewable resource that is being managed pretty well these days from what I can gather.
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The lumber industry is largely responsible for the positive PR on their own sustainability. In fact,
- Not as much of the lumber we use is harvested from tree farms, as they would have us believe; huge tracts of virgin forest are cleared every day for paper use (and other lumber-based uses); and
- the process of removing that lumber from the forest, pulping it, turning it into paper and transporting it to the local (or not-so-local) printer is much more environmentally damaging than most people know... and the lumber industry largely ignores or pays lip service to the damage they do.