The world's natural resources that are consumed are needed more than ever, and there is increasingly less of them. One of these resources that is at stake is paper. This is a very alarming number. Paper has a variety of uses, and with the Information Age, paper is used more than ever. The most serious aspect of the paper landscape, is not paper itself, but where it comes from.
Most paper comes from wood pulp .
Chemical pulping is the most widely used way to create paper. It has many downsides. About half of the wood pulp created by this process goes into paper, the other half is the leftover chemical waste which is usually burned. Most of this pollution is put into water bodies where these wood pulp mills are often located. Pulp is the fifth largest consumer of energy in industry.