It's a Paper world !!!

By Debarati Das

Paper is an indispensable part of our daily life. Be it a tissue paper in your backpack, stickons on your refrigerators for reminders, a piece of paper for making your grocery list, a travel ticket, a movie bill, a calendar on your work table, or a dictionary- at any point of time, you always have a paper on you. 

But the use of paper is consistently witnessing a shift. On one hand, the rising use of electronic devices is steadily encouraging the trend of going “paperless” to avoid wastage of paper. Like many others, over the years, I too have shifted to various mobile apps for making reminder lists, reading books and news, finding words on online dictionaries, referring to calendar, using e-tickets instead of printouts, and doing my small part towards a greener planet by reducing wastage of paper when it can be genuinely avoided.  

However, on the other hand, paper is also rising as the only ecological alternative to plastic which is doing more damage to the planet. So, there is a significant rise in the use of paper bags, paper packaging, etc. Despite several environmental concerns, the requirement for paper will always remain. The need of the hour, however, is to evolve with changing times without compromising the green cover of the planet.

Here are some of the trends which are globally governing the transition of the paper industry.

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