On 27 Jun 09 Saturday, the Strait
Times has a total 214 pages weighting over 1kg, compiled of 9
parts.
Base on the daily circulation of
389,000 copies, it would need 400 tons of newsprint paper per
day. that will be translated to cutting down 3,600 trees for
one day's circulation and 188,000 trees for 52 Saturdays
1. Even on normal weekdays, it still has close
to 100 pages weighting half a kg, translating to
another 525,
000 trees cut down in a year. Adding up weekdays’ and
Saturdays’ circulation, a total of almost 700,000 trees have
to be cut down every year for this newsprint. Assumption has been
made that 30% of recycle fiber has been used to make
the newsprint.
Today,05 Sep 09, the stack of newsprint
is so thick that it didn’t bother to declare anymore how many pages
there is.
My question is: How many trees will
be left to our posterity? Can we
not see that more and more frequent and severe natural
disasters are happening all over the world these days.
note 1. Base on 9 trees per ton of
newsprint required. (Essential
Guide by Claudia Thompson,
Cambridge, MA: MIT press 1992.)
