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Kali Yuga · 09-22-2009, 09:25 PM

Egads, you people are so picky....

Anyway, the Green Press Initiative and The Book Industry Study Group did a big environmental impact study. A precis is here: http://www.ecolibris.net/book_industry_footprint.asp

Salient points include that the sources of paper for books do include endangered forests and rainforests; recycled paper use for US books in '06 was somewhere around 5%; close to 1 billion books were unsold in 06, and not all of that was recycled; and the US book industry alone uses 1.5 million metric tons of paper per year. Don't kid yourself, the paper book industry has a huge environmental impact.

100k books is a small drop in the bucket, but every drop helps.

09-22-2009, 09:25 PM	#20
Kali Yuga Professional Contrarian Posts: 2,045 Karma: 3289631 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 4 No Touchie	Egads, you people are so picky.... Anyway, the Green Press Initiative and The Book Industry Study Group did a big environmental impact study. A precis is here: http://www.ecolibris.net/book_industry_footprint.asp Salient points include that the sources of paper for books do include endangered forests and rainforests; recycled paper use for US books in '06 was somewhere around 5%; close to 1 billion books were unsold in 06, and not all of that was recycled; and the US book industry alone uses 1.5 million metric tons of paper per year. Don't kid yourself, the paper book industry has a huge environmental impact. 100k books is a small drop in the bucket, but every drop helps.