The upcoming book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be environmentally-friendly. There will be 12 million copies of the book printed, according to Scholastic. That’s a lot of trees. Which has some people wondering where all that paper is going to come from.

The answer came today: Sixty-five percent of the 16,700 tons needed for the launch will be manufacturuddy from forests approved by the Forest Stewardship Council, a group that sets global standards for sustainable forest-keeping, according to their site.



All the books will contain contain “a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber,” or paper that has been collected for recycling.
For more details, read the news release on Earthtimes.org, and click on something there while you are feeling green.



The Associated Press remembers criticism for Scholastic

in 2005 that may have led to the shift:
Greenpeace and other environmental groups complained that Scholastic wasn?t using enough recycled paper [in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] and urged consumers to purchase copies from the Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books.
Scott Paul, who works on forests for Greenpeace, today expressed his approval to the A.P., while assuring readers that “many of the Harry Potter fans worldwide have been able to enjoy the books on FSC-certified paper.”

We applaud Scholastic for taking this eco-friendly step. We love paper books and we love trees, so this makes us happy on both counts.



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