Recycling paper do not save enough the trees, because of the huge increasing of paper demand. Finding an alternative source of raw material for paper manufacturing instead of wood is the solution.

5. Paper consumption
• Typically paper made of cellulose
pulp which driven from wood.
• World wide consumption of paper
has risen by 400% in the past 40
years.
• 35% of harvested trees are being
used for paper manufacturing.
• Where about 10% of this wood are
from old growth forests

6. Paper consumption
One large tree could provide supply of Oxygen for
two people.

7. Paper consumption
• 400 million tons/year is the global
paper consumption of 2010
• Almost half of this is consumed by
Europeans and North America.
• U.S. annual pulp paper consumption
exceeds 110 million tones per year.
• Which consuming 1 billion trees
annually from an area of 12’400 Sq.
miles approximately every year.
World wildlife fund

9. Paper waste and recycling
• The production and recycling of
paper has numbers of adverse effect
on the environment.
• In the cleaning process, despite the
water is being treated after use, soil
is being contaminated.
• In the deinking process the water use
is being mixed with soap-like
chemicals called surfactants,
producing sludge which need to be
burn on 800c to be reused.
Photo: Chemical sludge collecting. Paper mill, Saini village, Uttar Pradesh - India

10. Paper waste and recycling
• Bleaching process (whitening process) using elemental
Chlorine, which release into the environment large
amount of Chlorinated Organic Compounds.
• This Dioxins are recognized as a persistent
environmental pollutant, Carcinogenic, and highly toxic
for soil & water.

11. Paper waste and recycling
• U.S. alone produce 71.6 million tons of paper waste per
year, which accounts to 40% of the total waste.
• A bale of paper to be recovered, is not totally paper,
20% of it contains: staples, paper clips, plastics.
• 35% of the rest 80% of the bale is the paper sludge
comes out from the cleaning and deinking process.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 28 April 2007

12. Paper waste and recycling
• Accordingly, only half of the recycled paper produced
as new paper, noting that America recovered nearly
50% of its total paper waste.
• Beside deinked pulp paper is not as strong nor as bright
as paper made from virgin pulp.
Paper university 2007

13. Paper waste and recycling
Despite the advent of the “Digital Age” and the paper
recycling use increased, Earth loosing about 13million
hectares of wood per year.
** photos from left to right: Australia, Rio de janeiro, Amazon forest

15. Tree-free Paper
• Tree-free paper made from
alternative raw material composition
used instead of wood-pulp paper.
• It’s claimed to be more eco-friendly
because the source of fiber’s entire
life used is less than 10 years.

16. Tree-free Paper
• Source of fibers:
 Agriculture residues like
sugarcane bagasse, husks, and
straw.
 Wild plants such as Bamboo,
kenaf, hemp, and flax.
 Textile waste.
**No need to recycle the sugarcane
paper because it could be used as
composite for soil, it doesn’t need
chemical treatments.

17. Explain to the future generations, it was
good for the Economy… when they can’t
farm the land, breath the air, nor drink the
water.
1978 2012