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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Trees grow fast. Not an “incredible amount of time”. Wood pulp is cheap and plentiful in North America and when replanted, grows quickly. Cotton makes better paper but it’s way too expensive. Hemp makes good paper but it’s not available in quantity (tax act of 1937 and the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, virtually banned the production of industrial hemp…maybe it will start up again). Practically anything can make paper but wood pulp is cheap and plentiful. Arguments about ecology and poison pulp/paper mills will continue for a long time. Pulpwood is CHEAP.
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