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Green Book Publishing: By the Numbers
- 4.9 million: Trees that would be saved by shifting the book industry’s collective average to 30 percent post-consumer waste.
- 154: Publishers, printers, and mills have developed strong environmental policies, and/or signed the Book Industry Treatise on Responsible paper use.
- 2,108: Pounds of greenhouse gas emissions prevented by replacing one ton of virgin fiber with one ton of post-consumer recycled fiber.
- 3rd: Rank of the pulp and paper industry in the list of largest industrial greenhouse emitters.
- 24: Number of new book papers with environmental attributes that have been developed in the past four years.
- 208 million: Acres of forestland that have been FSC certified.
- 42 percent: Wood harvest committed for industrial use -- that's everything except fuelwood -- used for paper production.
- 40 percent: Amount of landfilled solid waste that is paper.
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