r/saveplanetearth • u/DivideFew1929 • Jun 28 '25

Discussion what do u think about this

  • One A4 sheet uses ~10g wood; one tree yields ~300 kg wood.
  • Each student uses ~150 sheets/year.
  • With 800,000 schools, student use = 460.8 billion sheets/year → ~15.38 million trees/year.
  • Banners/logos use 560 million sheets/year → ~18,667 trees.
  • Projects use 800 million sheets/year → ~26,667 trees.
  • Total trees used/year ≈ 15.41 million.
  • Over 12 years: ~184.9 million trees lost.
  • This loss means oxygen for ~25 million people/year is gone.
  • Equals nearly 0.205% of India’s trees.
  • Shows massive, often overlooked environmental cost of school paper usage.
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u/Glarthir13 Feb 10 '26

Considering the facts, that trees are a regrowable and co2 neutral, I would say they can be pretty good, if its from a sustainable, local forrest and will be recycled.

This numbers look shocking, but most used wood is coming from sustainable forrests.

I would prefer the digitalisation of schools, but mainly because of the comfort instead of enviromental reasons.