Paper and Packaging Products Are The Right Choice

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - When people buy paper products, they are doing the earth a favor. That's because paper products are manufactured with wood fiber - the one natural resource in the world that can regenerate itself in harmony with the environment. The best news is we are growing more wood fiber than we use. The forests are growing - not disappearing. There are 12 million more acres of forests in the U.S. today than 20 years ago. Since 1965, the number of trees growing in U.S. forests has increased 39 percent, considering that in the same period of time our population has nearly doubled.

Unlike other raw material, the rapidly growing trees we use to produce wood fiber are perpetually grown and re-grown in forests managed for that purpose. As long as there is sunlight and well-managed forestland, we will have a limitless supply of wood fiber. And, the more renewable wood fiber we use, the less we'll need of alternative resources that will eventually run out.

Only wood fiber can guarantee that a world soon to hold 10 billion people will have the material we need to allow us to build our homes, safely package our food and communicate with each other - all without using alternatives that deplete our natural resources or damage the environment.

So "saving trees" is not the environmental answer - using more paper and packaging products with wood fiber is.

Jay James
Division Manager
xpedx / Dallas