Why doesnt any one cultivate papyrus, an make paper out of it as an alternative too trees ?

Question

I think it would be a easily exploitable source of revanue , plus cohesivley saving tons of tress from being cut down sence its replacing trees as the only sorce of paper .

Papyrus has i know a better future than tree cultivation sence a cut down tree is a 40 -60 even more year loss while papyrus plant gross fast like a weed and whenit is cut its only a 2 week loss ! (or something close too it i guess ! )

Living in theend times with lobal warming getting worse every day with no end in sight of reducing the eeffcets of it much less fixing thed amage that already exists and even more un heard of , of a way of avoiding this from happening agin !

So consideing all of the mentioned above im sure the modern day consumer would be more than happy to lend a helping hand by buying a alternative more eco freindly way of making paper (papyrus) and buy papyrus products instead of products like paper that come from trees.

Please excuse the bad spelling !

P:S thank youfor read

Answer 1

Theres a guy in Adelaide Australia called Ramy Azer (originally from Egypt I think) Who came to Australia to do just that, because he heard we had abundant supplies of papyrus in Australia. Unfortunately he later found out that most of it was in a huge national park in the Northern Territory. He has since found a way to use banana trees instead!! The paper he makes is stronger than pulp paper, fire resistant and water resistant. He formed a company called Papyrus Australia (that I have shares in) and at this point in time they have their first commercial sized machine being commissioned. I could go on at length about the advantages of this new technology, but in a nutshell:

Paper trees take in excess of 20 years to grow,a banana tree takes 9 months. At present the bananas are harvested and the trees are cut down and left to rot.The growers now have an extra crop for no extra work

It takes a lot of water to make conventional paper,they use no extra water (as far as I know) to produce the banana paper

They use 5% of the power that is used in conventional paper production

They do not produce the toxic waste of conventional paper manufacturing

I am a bookbinder by trade and when I heard about alternative sustainable paper I had to look at what it was all about
With all the eco benefits of this new technology you can see why I bought shares !!

Answer 2

Papyrus Is not cultivated for various reasons:

It grows on marshlands and requires a lot of water to grow.

It is not as strong as paper and will tear fairly easily.

You would use more land and water to cultivate papyrus than you would to cultivate trees.

Pound for pound, you need more papyrus fibers than tree fibers to create paper.

Excellent question, by the way.

Answer 3

Do not worry about paper killing trees. The trees are replanted by the timber companies. The paper industry in the U.S. is not causing deforestation. They are tree farming. Environmentalists still complain that the tree farms are not proper old growth natural forests and do not make good wildlife habitat, but the fact is that there are more trees now in the U.S., not fewer.

Deforestation is happening in places like Brazil where vast tracts of rain forest are being cleared to make farm land, some of which is being used to grow sugar cane to make ethanol for cars.

Answer 4

Actually, paper can be made from virtually any fibrous plant. What I don't get is why we are using any new paper at all---surely we have enough stuff already now to recycle and make more?

Answer 5

Because we cultivate trees instead and they are more cost effective as a raw material for paper.

Answer 6

the timber industry will do anything for nothin else to be in competition with them. hemp is great for making paper and many others but because of the timber/lumber industries, hemp is now illegal in the U.S. and some other places as well

Answer 7

They're experimenting with hemp now but Corporate America is pulling the strings

Answer 8

Don't forget that trees are a renewable resource.

Just recycle it for less waste.

Answer 9

Why don't you do it? Or, like a typical enviro-fascist, are you only interested in dictating what other people should do?

Answer 10

yea...or cotton!