Everything you want to know about Paper Printing and Packaging

1. ??!! Interesting Facts !!! Everything you want to know about Paper Printing and Packaging

2. Did you know...? • It is estimated that for every ton of paper recycled saves enough energy to power a house in the UK for a whole year! • Paper produced from raw material uses far more energy and water than if we recycle our unwanted paper • By recycling your daily newspaper you will have saved more than your own body weight in paper within a year! • For every ton of paper used for recycling, 17 trees are spared. • The average family uses 6 trees worth of paper each year. • A forest the size of Wales is needed to supply the paper used in the UK every year!

3. Facts About Paper ... • Paper and card are the materials that we all throw away the most, making up over a third of the rubbish we produce. • It is easy to make new paper and card by recycling the old paper and card. • As a nation, we use paper every day and 12.5 million tons is used each year. • It takes 7 days for a recycled newspaper to come back as anewspaper again. • Every year in United State are printed 2 billion books, 359million magazines and 24 billion newspapers.

4. Facts About Paper ...continued • Recycling and recovering one ton of paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space • For printing the Sunday edition of New York Times are used 75 000 trees. • 11 million tons of CO2 equivalent emissions were avoided by recycling paper and cardboard in 2008, the equivalent of taking around 3½ million cars off the road. • About 324 liters water are used for producing 1 kg. of paper. • 10 000 trees are used in China for producing holiday cards.

5. Ahh..a..!! In Percentage…!! • 40% of rubbish is paper. • 77% of paper are recycled every year in Holland. • 67% of paper are recycled every year in Germany. • 52% of paper are recycled every year in Japan. • 45% of paper are recycled every year in United States.

6. Term used in Paper Industry...!! • The unit “gsm” reflects the paper density for papers or boards and is unofficial unit symbol used widely in the pulp and paper industry. The original term is “grams per square meter” or (g/m2), in other way, paper density is also known as ”grammage”. The term "density" is not used in its traditional sense of mass per unit volume. "Paper density", rather, is a measure of the area density. • “Paper thickness” or “Caliper”, is a common measurement specified and required for certain printing applications. Caliper is usually measured in micrometers (1/1000 of a mm), or in the US also in mils (1 mil = 0.001 inch = 25.4 µm). In common measure "20-lb bond varies from about 0.0038 to 0.0045 in. thick".

7. Real Facts...!! • You Can’t fold a piece of paper in half more than 11 times. • Paper was first created in China in 105 AD using a tree bark made into a pulp. It is considered one of their four greatest inventions. • Egypt had used leaves from the papyrus plant as a writing surface as far back as 5,000 B.C., but even though Greeks and Romans continued using papyrus, this was not the real beginning of paper. • In the middle ages, Europeans changed the formula and began using cloth rags from discarded clothes to make paper. • Bill Gates says he doesn't use much paper (in this fortune magazine article), however 95% of business information is still stored on paper. • An average tree can yield 2,700 copies of an average daily newspaper. • Paper recycling started around six centuries ago! Today the world recycles about 160 million tons of paper per year. • 1 file cabinet = 3.7 pine trees standing 75-feet tall