Jordan River Forum
The current rate of paper consumption in the U.S. is the sole cause of the untimely deaths of 2.5 billion trees every year. According to recent statistics, an average person in the U.S. uses 375 kg of paper made from nine trees every year and the numbers continue to increase. Since the consumption of a University student is higher than that of the average American, we in our student stage of life are contributing to the logging of more trees every year than we can ever aspire to replace. The rapid pace at which forests are undergoing metamorphoses from oxygen producers to paper mill polluters is appalling: 80 percent of the world's original forests have already disappeared and 95 percent of the old growth forests in the U.S. are lost forever. Half of the trees lost in North America owe their hastily terminated lives to paper making.
