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GREEN CORNER: Paper trail
As paper is mostly manufactured from trees, every single piece of wasted paper means that somewhere a tree was murdered for no reason at all
Are you one of those who leaves a trail of discarded paper wherever you go and I don’t just mean sweet wrappers either? Maybe you print out lots of things from your computer and then never even get around to looking at them again. Maybe you only use up half a school notebook before demanding another without giving a thought to where that paper actually came from and what its production is doing to the planet.
In this so-called age of computers, paper work is not supposed to exist but it does, in huge amounts. And as paper is mostly manufactured from trees, every single piece of wasted paper means that somewhere a tree was murdered for no reason at all. Terrible isn’t it?
Just imagine what it feels like to be a tree, a beautiful tall tree bearing lots of lovely green leaves and flowers, how it feels to have a nice cool breeze rustling through your branches where birds sing away to their heart’s content. Pretty good eh! But, just a minute, a jeep full of men screeches to a halt next to your trunk, out jump a bunch of guys wielding power saws, the birds fly away in terror and you know you are going to be killed then hauled off to a pulp mill to be made into paper. Nasty! Even nastier if you guess that more than half of that paper is simply going to be wasted by someone who really does not even stop to think.
Without trees there would be no life, of any kind, on the planet we call home and trees are being cut much faster than new ones are being planted. Trees are made into all sorts of things like furniture, floorboards, walls, entire houses, and used for fuel and made into paper. If they could cry then they certainly would as they are being exploited into oblivion.
So please think before printing out stuff from your computer or throwing a single piece of useable paper away as, by doing such things you are endangering the future of everyone on earth through using up natural resources faster than they are replaced. Pity the trees, plant more if you can and feel the pain inside every weeping tree as it is cut down. Above all… save paper.
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