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Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 99 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 908 Paper Global Resources per onto a machine and slitting it down to size. Large mechanical guillotine cutters that operate at incredibly high speeds cut the mother sheet into smaller segments and the finished sized sheets are delivered to the packaging department then sent on to the consumer. In 2000 the countries with the largest paper and paperboard product output were first the United States followed by Japan China Canada Germany Finland and Sweden. However China was quickly on the rise and by 2008 was producing almost as much as the United States. It was widely believed that the advent of the computer age and the Internet would cause a rapid drop in paper consumption. The reverse has proven true. Consumption for personal computer use was estimated to be around 115 billion sheets of paper per year worldwide according to a mid-1990 s study. The Hewlett-Packard company estimates that today somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.2 trillion sheets of paper are printed annually on laser printers and similar devices. The Paper Industry Association Council reported that about 90 million metric tons of paper and paperboard were used in the United States in 2005. The thought that the Internet and electronic publishing would cause a drop in paper demand for the publishing industr y was unfounded as well. Today electronic publishing amounts to a mere 5 to 15 percent of the publishing marketplace. Newspaper publishing was declining before the Internet but the demand for newsprint in the global market continues to grow at an average rate of 2 percent per year. This increase in newsprint is largely due to an increase in Asian literacy and readership. Pulp and paper consumption in Asia alone had increased from an average of 5.64 kilograms of paper per individual in 1961 to 29.17 kilograms of paper per individual in 2004. All of this papermaking is not without its ecological drawbacks. Paper and paperboard packaging is the single largest component of American municipal solid .
