Paper Production

• Increased significantly in the Western world over the last ten years; although the computer was supposed to replace paper, all Western countries used more paper in 2002 than in 1992
  
• Increased significantly in the United States between 1995 and 2000; uncoated, free-sheet office paper consumption increased by 15%
  
• Produced a significant increase in total revenues in Canada between 1993, when revenues were 4.3 billion dollars, and 2003, when revenues were 6.4 billion dollars (Statistics Canada, Annual Survey of Manufactures)

Gladwell, Malcolm. “The Social Life of Paper.” The New Yorker 78.5 (2002): 92.