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It may feel as if you no longer use paper anymore, especially as bills, banking and even birthday cards available to us online, but it is still being made on a large scale. In fact, 4 billion trees are cut down every year all over the world to produce paper and in the UK, 12.5 million tonnes of paper are used each year.
We’re also used to treating paper as disposable, even if we are recycling it. Think about how many times you have opened a letter, scanned through it and put it straight in the bin. It feels pretty wasteful, right?
Fortunately, there are ways to re-use your scrap paper that go way beyond scribbling down a phone number or a shopping list. In fact, if you feel like getting crafty, there’s a way to repurpose your scrap paper and turn it into unique, high-quality card that you can use for envelopes, letter writing – it’s even beautiful enough to frame.
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