As U.S. consumers become increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of the products they use, there remains a wide gap between perception and reality when it comes to the sustainability of paper products. A new survey details this misunderstanding.
Kathi Rowzie
Despite the fact that the annual increase in U.S. tree volume is twice the amount harvested, some groups still bemoan that trees are chopped down to make paper and advocate using no wood fiber at all in paper – a practical impossibility. What are the facts?
Though students have grown up in a digital world, more than 60% prefer printed texts to digital texts according to a new survey.
Thanks to a renewed effort, 14 companies have changed or removed misleading environmental claims related to print and paper so far this year, including large banks, utilities and notably, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The importance of print books became apparent in 2020. It resulted in the best year for U.S. print book sales since 2010.
