COMMENTS

ORTING IS GOING GREEN

By: Monica Haman May 15, 2008

As much as we appreciate our local loggers, (Orting has enough new houses going up to support them for awhile), it’s time we make an effort to go green. The “paper” it turns out is saving approximately 204 trees in which our beloved Gazette used yearly printing our paper.

I had to do a little research on this, turns out it wasn’t all that hard to figure out once you get all the factors and locate the equation.

The Gazette published 6500 papers per week. Now I don’t have an old Gazette laying around but it seems each publication was about 12 pages. There were 52 publications per year. 6500 x 12 x 52 = 4,056,000 pieces of paper per year to print the Gazette. Not really a factor in the equation, just an interesting fact.

Now the trees, assuming that a "tree" in this calculation is an "average" Douglas-fir that is 12" diameter and 90 feet tall. This is an average size of a tree, as grown on private or public lands, for harvest as timber.

So IF the Gazette weighed 1 pound (including the inserts) and our formula is "How many newspapers come from an average tree?" (call this N) is:
N = 1,660.0 / W (if you measure the Gazette weighing one pound) 1,660.0/1= 1,660. Then you figure the Gazette printed 338,000 papers a year. 338,000/1,660= 204
SO 204 trees were used a year to print the Gazette. Also known as trees per year being saved by Ortingnews.com .

Just a bit of trivia, but very interesting!