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I have to do a school project, and I was wondering approx. how many pieces of standard notebook-sized paper can be produced from one tree?

April 26, 2017Approx paper pieces produced project School standard tree wondering

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I have to do a school project, and I was wondering approx. how many pieces of standard notebook-sized paper can be produced from one tree?

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Thanks, Rebecca Dear Rebecca, Your question – a very popular one – is not as simple as it seems. It’s very difficult to calculate this figure since the fibre for paper comes from so many different sources. You could do an interesting project on the different materials that can be used to make a sheet of paper. The quality and appearance of a sheet of paper can vary enormously depending on the fibre in that sheet. Even if only wood fibre is used, there still are questions about what specie of tree, what size of tree, etc.. So, we no longer try to give an answer to the question, “how many sheets of paper can come from one tree?”. We do want you to know that for every tree we harvest, we look after ensuring that five more will grow to maturity. By the end of this summer our company J.D. Irving, Limited will have planted 500 million trees since we began our planting program in 1958. Trees are a truly renewable resource.