Welcome Welcome to issue 23 of Green Kids, this edition is all about paper and trees. Did you know that the magazine that you are reading right now is made from recycled paper? We are going to find out how paper is recycled and how to conserve our precious trees. Also you can enter a competition to win a cool torch on page seven and enjoy our new cartoon on the back page.

One tree can

provide enough

oxygen for a family

of four to breathe fo r

a whole year!

Contents:

3 Paper & trees 4 The recycling story 6 Your letters 7 Get crafty 8 Cartoon

Editor Melissa Corkhill Design Jez Harris. Green Kids is printed on recycled paper using vegetable based inks. To write to us: Green Kids, PO Box 104, Lewes, BN7 9AX Tel: 01825 872858 Website: www.thegreenparent.co.uk With thanks to www.recyclenow.com for pictures.

What ab out the tre es? Once our planet had many more trees than it ha stoday. As our popula tion has increased we have cut down more trees to build t owns and cities and also t o make room for keeping a nimals an dgrowing fo od crops. Today thirt y three fo otball pitch sized areas of forest are cut down every sec ond. That is a huge number of trees destroyed to make way for human gr owth. And of course it has a bi g impact o n our planet bec ause trees help us breathe. T hey clean the air by soaking u p gases lik e carbon monoxide, sulphur di oxide and nitrogen di oxide.