While you’re out celebrating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with your kids, feel better knowing that the 12 million copies printed in the US will be the most eco-conscious books to date. After a major campaign by Raincoast Books, Potter’s Canadian publisher, and eventually J.K. Rowling herself, the novel with the magic to keep kids reading will contain 65% paper produced in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner; and, at least 35% will be made from post-consumer waste paper. That’s huge, considering the last book, which Scholastic printed about 10 million copies of, had no recycled paper whatsoever. It will save about 130,000 trees, and, combined with the 15 other Harry Potter publishers around the world, will save about 200,000 trees - the equivalent of 2.5 Central Parks! And if you enjoy reading it IN Central Park, well, the trees thank you…
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