Eli5 why we use trees to produce paper.

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Everybody uses paper. Why are we waiting for trees to grow only to cut them down to produce paper? It takes an incredible amount of time for a tree to grow, whereas other plants grow faster, why not use those plants

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Some trees grow quickly. Eucalyptus is commonly used for paper and that grows very fast. But different types of trees give different kinds of quality of the fibers. Some types of paper need to use slower growing trees (like pine) in order to produce giver if the right quality

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