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Wood is the raw material used in papermaking and the major source paper bags. This natural source is renewable and ever-growing.<\/p>\n
More than a third of Europe is covered by forests. Forest areas amount to 215 million hectares in Europe.1 This provides a wealth of natural resources and an enormous potential to mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n
Forest cover in Europe is growing by 1.4% per year.1 This is thanks to the continuous replantation of trees during harvesting. For each tree harvested, two more are planted. Sustainable forest management protects water courses, increases research in new species, protects biodiversity and looks after the welfare of forest industry workers.<\/p>\n
All constituents from a tree are fully utilised when a tree is harvested – there is no waste. The trunk is typically used for sawn timber and pulpwood. The stump, branches and tops of the tree are used for bioenergy. The fibres for pulp production are withdrawn from tree thinnings and from process waste from the sawn timber industry. They are 100% natural, renewable and biodegradable.<\/p>\n
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Paper is based on wood, a natural and renewable material. As young trees grow, they absorb carbon dioxide (C02) from the atmosphere. Furthermore, as a wood product, paper also continues to store carbon throughout its lifetime.
\n1 m3 of wood captures 1 tonne of CO2 while emitting 0.7 tonnes of oxygen. The average annual sequestration of carbon in European forest biomass reaches 719 million tonnes of CO2.1 This offsets the fossil CO2 emissions generated annually by Germany (including by the energy industries, manufacturing industries and construction, transport, households, agriculture and waste)2 or by 209 coal-fired power plants.3 The carbon stored is not released when the tree is cut, but rather remains in the forest’s products, such as wooden products and paper bags. One kilo of paper stores 1.3 kilos of C02 equivalents and this carbon sequestration time is extended when we recycle the paper.<\/p>\n
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Europe is the world leader in recycling paper. The paper recycling rate in Europe is 71.5%, which means that 59 million tonnes of paper are recycled each year1 -that’s 2 tonnes of paper every second. Paper bags are part of this loop, as the fibres within a paper bag are reused on average 3.5 times in Europe.2 However, a cellulose fibre from a paper product can be recycled up to six times3, before it is turned into bioenergy or being composted at the end of its life cycle. Recycling paper means reducing polluting emissions produced by landfills.<\/p>\n
And if a paper bag were to mistakenly end up in nature, it would not harm the land or the oceans. As a natural product, it is biodegradable within two to five months without harming the environment, unlike other shopping bags that can take more than 400 years to decompose.<\/p>\n
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\nExperience shows that consumers reuse paper bags for different purposes or use them for their next shopping trips.<\/p>\nPaper bags have a low climate impact<\/h2>\n
\nOne of the environmental impact categories is Global Warming Potential (GWP). It describes how much global warming a given type and amount of greenhouse gas may cause, using the functionally equivalent amount or concentration of C02 as a benchmark.<\/p>\nThe eco-labelling of paper bags<\/h2>\n
\nRenewable, given that its raw material, cellulose fibre, is ever-growing, being specifically grown in forests that are managed responsibly. Biodegradable, since paper bags are made from natural fibres, are printed with water-based inks and ecological glues and degrade in a short period of time without damaging the natural environment. Recyclable, since the cellulose fibres from a paper bag can be recycled up to six times before it is turned into bioenergy or being composted at the end of its life cycle.
\nReusable, as it has been shown that paper bags can be reused at least five times for the transportation of the same type of product for which it was originally acquired.<\/p>\n