Friday, July 20, 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows of sustainable paper

From Scientific American:

I promise not to give anything away, just wanted to highlight a few facts about the impending mega-release: its first printing will consume 16,700 tons of paper (which, depending on whose estimates of tree per piece of paper you believe, equals roughly 400,800 trees), according to Scholastic.
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