Impact of Books on The Environment
A book is a written text intended for reading. It can include words, pictures, or music and is typically bound in covers. Books come in many physical forms, such as Babylonian clay tablets, Egyptian papyrus rolls, mediaeval vellum codexes, and modern printed paper codex books that we are most familiar with today. Books also leave an enormous environmental footprint; for instance, producing one e-reader requires extracting 33lb of minerals,...