Re: Planting by the moon, newspaper mulch
lloyd kinder (lkindr@hotmail.com)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 17:27:05 PST
Terry wrote:
>You write to ogl:
>>I ... am wondering if newspaper is
>>now safe to use as mulch.
>
>Another question is whether using newspaper as mulch is a sustainable
practice.
>
>Too much newsprint comes from old growth forest. I read on OGL that in
the
>US 'everybody' buys the New York Times, a paper of humungous size that
>nobody could possibly read all the way through, and so I imagine they
buy
>it in order to read a handful of items each week - -the rest going to
waste
>or at best mulch. This is a terrible way to use up our old growth
forests.
>Even if the fibre comes from second growth, it is still used up at an
>unsustainable rate.
>
>I'd urge everyone to reconsider their newspaper buying habits - - get
your
>news from smaller, more focussed sources, or electronic media. And
please
>remember when you use a largely unread newspaper as mulch, that a tree
in a
>dsitant forest was sacrificed for that purpose.
>
>
> With best wishes,
>Terry
>Fulford Harbour BC
>
Hi Terry. I guess we can skip the moon part. Do you mean Newspaper
publishers still don't use recycled paper? Does it really take a whole
tree to print one newspaper? Do you mean a whole printing of several
hundred or thousand copies? Aloha. Lloyd
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