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11 mln trees to print textbooks every year
www.chinanews.cn 2007-07-13 16:13:30
Chinanews, Beijing, July 13 �C According to a report by Workers Daily,
elementary school pupils and high school students in China need nearly 3
billion copies of textbooks every year, which require 550 thousand tons
of paper, or 11 million trees.
The amazing calculation was made by Zhu Yongxin, a member of the Standing
Committee of the Chinese People��s Political Consultative Conference,
China��s top advisory body.
Zhu suggests that students should make the most of every copy of
textbooks by recycling them. However, the problem is not easy to solve,
as it needs to change the concept of the general public in the first
place. Besides, the government should work out regulations on the control
of publishers gaining extravagant profits from textbooks.
Nowadays, China has become the second biggest paper and paperboard
consumers, and not many Chinese are aware of the severe pollution caused
by papermaking, and its great demand for energy.
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