102. More trees, less wheeze.

Breathe easy. Because the paper industry plants trees for our use, we're strengthening nature's lungs.

Trees eat up carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen, which means every tree we plant helps to reduce greenhouse gases – and helps our planet breathe. In 2004, commercial forests and plantations removed over 40 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. And that’s just in one year in Australia.

 

• Trees are great at storing carbon. It’s estimated that the world’s forests store 50% more carbon than the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

 

• The paper industry is one of the few industries able to say that production of its primary raw material removes carbon dioxide from the air.

 

Sources:	The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005), Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
	Australasian Paper Industries Association Ltd, 2008, "Paper … A fundamental part of daily living"
	CRC for Greenhouse Accounting 2007, Forests, Wood and Australia’s Carbon Balance, FWPRDC, Melbourne
	International Institute for Environment and Development 1996, Towards a Sustainable Paper Cycle, World Council for Sustainable Development, London.
	CPBIS 2007, Paper Industry Facts [online]