How many trees were cut down in the U.S. to make paper in the most recent two year period?

Answer 1

The U.S. Forest Service has a specific arm and a website (see link below) for this type of question. Any of the questions you have about how many of any kind of tree in the U.S. was cut down or was growing or how much forest is there can be answered with the information on this website. Take your time to investigate it fully. There is A LOT of information on here.

Answer 2

Many people have heard the statistic that "a ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees." The "17 trees" number was popularized by Conservatree when it was a paper distributor, based on a report to Congress in the 1970s. It was calculated for newsprint, which is made in a totally different papermaking process from office and printing papers. But it was the best number anyone had, so it became the number everyone used to calculate number of trees saved by recycled paper, or number of trees cut to make virgin paper, no matter what type of paper they were talking about.

Paper is made from a mix of types of trees. Some are hardwood, some are softwood. In addition, some are tall, some old, some wide, some young, some thin. Many of the "trees" used to make paper are just chips and sawdust.

So how can one talk about a "typical tree"? And do numbers calculated 30 years ago still apply to today's much more efficient paper industry?

Answer 3

A lot. Millions - but recycled paper is becoming the norm. Even a lot of companies that are not solely recycled paper are 25% to 50%. That's pretty good considering. It's funny - When computers were becoming more common - they were calling it "The Paperless Era." HA! ... Nobody trusts their hard drive, and you can't hand most older people a disc. If you did - they would just print it out to read it anyway.

Answer 4

I don't know, but our ancestors used hemp for paper. That's why all those old documents still exist today. They used hemp for everything. The first American battleship was made of 85% hemp. The Oil industry, the cotton industry, and Chemical company's , spent outrageous amounts of money for lobbyist to outlaw it, because hemp could do everything there products could.

Answer 5

they don't even use trees for paper anymore buddy. its some type of bush with a name that escapes me at the moment, but most of all paper these days is recycled.

Answer 6

sorry i thought using & re-cycling paper had been/was adopted everywhere.
i didn't know the US were chopping down trees 4 paper.
how short-sighted!
however many it was/is, IT WAS 2 MANY!

Answer 7

just dnt but any other paper apart from recycled i'll do a lot of good x

Answer 8

im guessing 5-10 trees.. but i could be wrong

Answer 9

yeah, the anwer to that is: 45,988,004,557,111,095,456,343,200,069
But in the time it took to answer this question the total is now:
45,988,004,557,111,095,456,343,798,469

Answer 10

alot