Interesting piece of trivia about the old Sunday NY Times newspaper: Up until the mid-to-late 80s, The Sunday edition of the NY Times was made of paper from virgin trees, to the tune of a double digit number of acres of trees. per Sunday NY Times issue. Even if it was just 10 acres, that still is an awful lot of trees to cut down for a newspaper. Later, the NY Times began using recycled paper to make the Sunday NY Times edition copies of. Now, fast forward a few more years, into the early 90s, and we find that on this planet, at that time, there was enough post consumer paper waste material to never have to cut another tree down to make paper.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 05:35:30 +0000
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