Some Interesting Facts About Paper

To begin with, you should know that around 100 BC, the Chinese made the first paper using hemp, and later used other materials such as tree trunks, bamboo twigs and other plant fibers to make paper.
The English word paper, which is pronounced /ˈpeɪpə(r)/, is actually derived from the Egyptian word papyrus.
We can produce from an average pine tree 8,500 sheets of paper.
Contrary to popular belief, banknotes are not made of paper at all, but of 75% cotton and 25% linen.
To imagine how much paper, we use daily, you should know that 75% of each landfill is made of paper and cardboard boxes.
Although the world is developing and using new technologies, the amount of paper consumption in the world is increasing every year.

The production of the first paper napkins dates back to the ninth century and the land of China.
By recycling a ton of paper, 17 trees are saved from being cut down.

In the last 200 years, 50% of the planet’s forests have either been burned or destroyed by human beings.
Paper was first imported to Europe by Arab traders who learned the secret of making it from the Chinese.
The United States consumes more than 90 million tons of paper and cardboard annually, which is an incredible statistic worldwide.
In the United States alone, 2 billion books, 350 million magazines, and 24 billion copies of newspapers are produced.Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith and the first inventor of the printing press in Europe, printed the first Bible on a kind of sheepskin. Gutenberg used the skins of 300 sheep to complete the book.