Raise the price of a newspaper for one day. Extra money raised ploughed back into planting trees
How many trees are cut down to make newspapers? In an effort to offset this deforestation, all the major newspapers for one day in the year, could add just 1c / 1p to their price. The profit from the action could be pooled together and ploughed straight back into a fund specifically created to plant trees. If all the major newspapers did it, then it would create a level playing ground, price wise, for that one day and no customer would defect to another paper on price. Even if just one newspaper took the initiative for one day, it would help.
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Newspapers in general are in very serious trouble financially due to competition from relatively free news sources. Making them more expensive would only increase their survival problems.
Improved recycling would save more trees.
sandMy idea was to increase the price for one day and I don't think that is going to jeopardise the surviability of a newspaper.
This new societal insistence on planting trees is perplexing to me. For centuries, people cleared land.
If you didn't know it, by just leaving land fallow for ten years, a person can 'plant' a whole forest. But it will be trees of nature's choosing, not trees favored by modern city-people. Oaks are pretty, but where I live, cedar and hedge and hackberry are what will grow.
I understand that there are more trees now than ever before. And I don't want newspapers to go broke. I don't think this idea is favorable.
Also, I don't know how you can raise the price for one day for me--I have a subscription. I think most people that read regularly will have a subscription--it's far more economical.
People would just skip that day.