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Geography of Paper Making. Geography of Its History . Chinese 2 nd century  Bagdad (8 th ?)  Spain & Sicily (10 th – 12 th century)  France & Germany (15 th century, printing revolution)  advanced paper making in 19 th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Geography of Paper Making

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Geography of Its History Chinese 2nd century Bagdad (8th?) Spain &

Sicily (10th – 12th century) France & Germany (15th century, printing revolution) advanced paper making in 19th century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper

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Trees & PaperBoth hardwood & softwood trees used to

make paper, but in the United States come mostly from softwood forests-mostly pine-in the South and West.

Tree-made paper accounts for over 90% of the world's paper production

World consumption of paper has grown four hundred percent in the last 40 years

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Tree & Paper

Wood stacked 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet, or 128 cubic feet) produces nearly 90,000 sheets of paper (Boise Cascade)

Tree farms where forests are planted, groomed and thinned for harvest in 20 to 35 year cycles

Tree farms supply 16% of all wood used in the paper industry while the bulk of the rest comes from second growth forests

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/31907-howstuffworks-show-episode-3-timber-super-tree-video.htm

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The Processhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGH7k

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The top 20 forest and paper products companies

Name history headquater

International Paper 1898 Memphis, TN

Georgia-Pacific 1927 Atlanta, GA

Weyerhaeuser 1900 Federal Way, WA

Kimberly-Clark 1872 Irving, Texas

Procter & Gamble (Paper) 1837 Cincinnati, Ohio

Smurfit-Stone 1974 Creve Coeur, Missouri

Boise (OfficeMax) 1957 Boise, ID

MeadWestvaco 2002 Richmond, Virginia

Temple-Inland 1893 Austin, Texas.

Sonoco 1899 Hartsville, South Carolina

Bowater Newly AbitibiBowater Inc. 1997Greenville, South Carolina

Louisiana-Pacific 1973 Nashville, Tennessee

Packaging Corp. of America 1959 Lake Forest, IL

Universal Forest Products 1955 Grand Rapids, Michigan

Rock-Tenn 1898 Norcross, Georgia

Potlatch 1903 Spokane, WA

Riverwood International 2002 Atlanta, GA

Plum Creek Timber 1989 Seattle, Washington

Rayonier 1926 Jacksonville, FL

Caraustar 1938 Powder Spring, GA

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3,054 Paper Mills in the U.S.

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http://www.uprr.com/customers/ind-prod/paper/paprplnt.shtml

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Paper Making & Environment

Nearly 4 billion trees or 35% of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent annually

Millions of pounds of highly toxic chemicals such as toluene, methanol, chlorine dioxide, hydrochloric acid, and formaldehyde are released into the air and water

More than 45% of all paper used in the United States is recycled

The rate of harvest for softwood trees in the southern United States outpaced growth for the first time since 1953 (US Forest Service)

The U.S., which contains only 5% of the world's population, uses 30% of all paper.

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Forest Sustainability

About 33% of the U.S. land area, or 737 million acres, is forest land. Net annual growth exceeds harvests and losses to insects and

disease by an average of 33% each year in commercial forests. America's forest products companies have donated over 1 million

acres of land (valued at over $400 million) for conservation, recreation, or social causes.

About 47 million acres (6% of all U.S. forest land) is reserved for parks and other wilderness areas - no commercial timber harvests are permitted.

Since 1952, 4% or about 19 million acres of timberland has been reclassified as wilderness or parks and no more commercial harvests are allowed.

The amount of new timber grown is more than the amount of timber harvested by at least 1/3 (54% in 1976, 38% in 1986, and 34% in 1992).

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A ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees?

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)

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.

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Alternatives

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10734998

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/31918-howstuffworks-show-episode-3-paper-pulp-video.htmRecycled wasteAgri-pulp: wheat, oat, barley and other crop

stalks left over after harvestingHemp, Kenaf, sugar cane as wood

substitutes, no need to use chlorine for the bleaching process

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Origami Christmas Tree (Pine Tree) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3nrbblb32w

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Sourceshttp://ecology.com/features/paperchase/

http://thesugarcanepapercompany.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_and_paper_industry_in_the_United_States

http://www.manta.com/mb_34_E026D_000/paper_mills#Location

http://www.hqpapermaker.com/paper-history/

http://geology.com/satellite/tennessee-satellite-image.shtml

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/EFS/printinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS110-726-10

http://www.tappi.org/paperu/all_about_paper/earth_answers/earthanswers.htm