Does anyone really know?
2006-10-02 07:13:33 · 6 answers · asked by kaurie_lynn29 2 in Environment
There are different processes used to seperate the usable fibers from the tree. The fibers that are most desirable for making paper make up only about 40% of a tree's mass. So if you use a good process which gets only that stuff, you end up with far less paper than procedures which leave a lot of the other stuff in and produce much lower-quality paper. Here's an interesting summary I dug up:
- 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 0.6 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)
That's a lot of trees! Hope that helps!
2006-10-02 07:27:43 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
approx 1 kg of tree will give 100 A4 sheet paper!
2015-02-19 17:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by prakash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. None. Pulp comes from the tree and is made into paper. The paper weight is pretty much the tree weight, so a 10 ton tree should give you about 10 tons of paper, more or less.
2006-10-02 07:16:31 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
too many to count
but it depends... it's not a fixed number for all trees.
2006-10-02 07:16:33 · answer #4 · answered by seminolefan925 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
tons and tons
2006-10-02 07:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by Chet the Body 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
death
2016-10-20 16:48:23 · answer #6 · answered by DANIEL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋