Prabhupada, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta | Adi-lila 9.46: […] Unnecessarily cutting trees without consideration is another example of human debauchery.
The paper industry cuts many hundreds and thousands of trees for its mills, and with the paper so much rubbish literature is published for the whimsical satisfaction of human society.
Unfortunately, although these industrialists are now happy in this life by dint of their industrial development, they do not know that they will incur the responsibility for killing these living entities who are in the forms of trees. Full Chapter
According to the University of Colorado's Environmental Center, "in this decade Americans will throw away over four and one-half million tons of office paper and nearly 10 million tons of newspaper.
WWF: Don’t flush forests down the toilet
WWF: Every day, about 270,000 trees are flushed down the drain or end up as garbage all over the world.
Most tissue products available in shops today – like toilet paper, kitchen towels, tissues and napkins – are made of virgin fibres and not recycled content.
But recycling is not the only problem. Unsustainable and illegal logging, badly managed plantations, and the use of bleaching chemicals all contribute to the environmental damage caused by tissue products.
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Flushing Forests | Worldwatch Institute: […] But what about the impacts? Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day, according to Claude Martin of WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature). Roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper. The result is that forests in both the global North and South are under assault by paper companies competing to fill what they insist is an inexhaustible consumer demand for, among other paper products, soft, fluffy toilet paper.
The expanding global demand for toilet paper and the accompanying environmental effects of raw material sourcing and manufacturing are intensifying the focus on the source and production of tissue: virgin pulp or recycled? Tree plantations or office wastebaskets? Luxury triple ply? Or, perhaps, no toilet paper at all? Full Article
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