This circle was constructed from catalogs sent to one home in the holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Years. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources manage thousands of acres of forest trust lands with a mandate to fund the construction of schools. The time has come to question this practice. Surely funding can come from other sources. For more information on Washington State trust lands, contact Northwest Ecosystem Alliance .
Direct mailers gobble sixty-eight million trees per year.
Half the received envelopes are never opened. Pulp demand will soon be responsible for half the world's annual timber cut each year. Every year each American uses the equivalent in wood products of one old-growth tree. We must use post-consumer waste for paper pulp and begin switching to Hemp, Kenaf and other alternative fibers to lessen our demand on trees. Treecycle Recycled Paper - Issues and Information.