Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows takes a green approach to reading
The Harry Potter book series got a lot of negative effects when it first came out in book form in school libraries. A lot of teaching professionals didn’t want the books on the shelf because it seemed to be “witchery” in a sort and teaching kids that magic is okay. With that a lot of parents raved about the series because it was allowing their children to read in ways they never had before.
With all the controversy of the books aside, the movies proved to be great profits of the creators with the five Harry Potter movies being in over $5 billion as of 2007. With that the books have brought in that much more in sales as well.
When a book is published paper is use, of course and with that paper comes trees. Many trees are cut down everyday and what is left behind is deforestation of the trees. The publishers behind The Harry Potter books wanted to put a stop to this and with that came the idea to use recycled paper as well as paper printed on wood that has come from the Forest Stewardship Council forest option.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows can now be found printed on paper that comes from 30 percent post-consume waste fiber and 65 percent of the 16,7000 tons of paper will be certified sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council. The deluxe edition of the Harry Potter book will be 100 percent post consumer waste paper and made using wind energy. Read more about it here.
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