Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Friday, 18 June 2021

As a tree-lover I have always worried about paper and its consumption.

I am always saving paper, writing on the backs of scraps and cut-up cardboard packaging.  Thanks to Google and Duck-Duck-Go I found this statistic :

 Top 5 Paper & Paperboard Importing Countries   (Million Metric Tonnes in 2017) 

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and scroll down.





 Where does it all come from ?  How ?  


According to research conducted by Kyocera,
the average office worker in the UK uses up to
45 pieces of paper per day, and a staggering two-thirds of that is considered to be waste.

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