How may trees does the NY Times chew up?

[bbinacan]

I met my brother for a beer tonight when the Sam Adams reps showed up with 2 trivia questionnaires. We won both, got a nice hat and T-shirt.

The question I need help with was.

"How many trees are used to make the Sunday newsprint for the NY Times, equivalent to about 314 acres?

a. 10,000 b. 63,000 c. 7,000

We picked 7,000 and were told that it was 63,000.

I don't think 63,000 is correct.

Any input would be appreciated.

[Atman]

1. BS. Newspapers are almost all recycled these days.

I think "equivalent to" are the key words. If it was virgin paper, maybe 63,000...but no way in hell the NYT is printing on virgin paper.

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[bbinacan]

2. Even if virgin paper

I just don't buy the 63000 assertion.

[Jonathan50]

3. 314 acres is a lot of trees...

Of course the number could be dropped to zero if we moved to hemp for paper making.. :shrug:

[12string]

4. New York Times/Trees

I remember reading in 1990 that one Sunday edition of the NYT
consumed 16000 trees.That makes a weekly consumption of 63000
trees sound within reason.I sure hope that recycling has
advanced enough in the last 17 years to offset a large portion
of this.Also I believe there are fast growing genetically
engineered trees developed specifically for the pulp and paper
industry that would be harvested as a farm rather than rampant
deforestation of second growth or virgin forest.