Oxford author Philip Pullman is among 200 writers worldwide to sign a petition demanding that books be published on 100 per cent recycled paper.
Mr Pullman, who lives in Cumnor, said: “This is one of the many ways people are becoming conscious of the way we are messing up the Earth.
“I hope that in some small way I can add my voice to helping the situation.”
Acid free
For mass market paperbacks this would be fine. For books that we want around in a hundred years using 100% recycled paper is also fine as long as the recycled paper is acid free.
recycling /= better for environment
Making books out of recycled paper is a great way to pollute the environment.
Re:recycling /= better for environment
Can you give a little detail about why you think making books from recycled material would pollute?
Re:recycling /= better for environment
2 reasons:
1) paper is made from trees grown for the purpose on tree farms, which is a good thing.
2) recycling paper involves : gas-guzzling trucks separate from garbage trucks to pick up the paper, sorting the paper with manpower and machinery.. then shipping it with gas-guzzling trucks to another location where it undergoes a toxic manufacturing process where it is turned into new sheets of recycled paper using more chemicals than were used to make the original paper in the first place which takes energy…
Solution: consume less.