Blog posts tagged with 'paper'

Did you know? The first paper ever created was in AD 105, when Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese scholar, combined a wet pulp of bark, linen, and hemp fibers and let them dry. Before this, people wrote on cave walls, stone tablets, and papyrus. The invention of paper is one of the most important in history. Today, North America’s annual demand is about 7.4 billion pounds of paper! But all paper is not created equally… and your choice could make or break the quality of your project.

Did you know, the average American uses nearly six trees worth of paper each year? And have you ever received an email with a note at the bottom, asking you to consider saving paper or “save a tree”, by not printing the email? Yes, forests are vital to humans, filtering the water we drink and the air we breathe. Yes, forests are home to half the world’s species of animals. And yes deforestation and forest destruction is the second leading cause of carbon pollution. Fortunately, paper is NOT the enemy of trees! And here’s why: