Steemit Covers : Paper (and facts about Paper & Trees) 🌳

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Today is another graphics day.

I have to admit I've been on a roll with the graphics today.

@TheAlliance logo submitted for inspection and a whole bunch of footers done for @SteemPh.

I was working on a special project but had to step away from it for a while cos I couldn't get my head around it lol so i figured I will revisit later but for now I will address my cover image issue and make us new covers.

Paper

I have always had a great love for paper. Whether it be in a well read novel, beautiful art work or colouring in books, paper has always been something that was present in my life and a medium I often got lost in.

Recently, as I began being more conscious about my impact on this planet I have learned to have more respect for paper because as you know, paper comes from trees and I have decided I love trees more than I love paper.

Some interesting facts about paper and trees.

🌳 Paper is said to have been invented by the Chinese in 105AD and it was originally made of bark and hemp rags.

🌳 It takes twice the amount of energy to make a paper bag than a plastic bag.

🌳 500,000 trees must be cut down just to produce each week’s Sunday newspaper (all U.S. Sunday papers combined).

🌳 Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.

🌳 Paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. With every recycling, fibers become shorter. After being processed five to seven times, the fibers become too short for the production of new paper, requiring the addition of new fibers.

🌳 A single tree produces approximately 260 pounds of oxygen per year. That means two mature trees can supply enough oxygen annually to support a family of four!

🌳 Over the course its life, a single tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide.

🌳 The locations of the world’s tallest and oldest trees are kept top secret to avoid tourist crowds damaging them and their surroundings.

🌳 Jadav Molai Payeng, a 47-year-old Indian, started planting trees when he was a 16, on a barren sandbar. Fast Forward to today, he now lives in his own 1360 acre jungle that is now inhabited with tigers, elephants and other wild animals

Here he is :) He's pretty amazing.

Now back to the covers.

These are really simple, so simple I'm not taking credit for them. I just resized these to Steemit Cover size, adjusted the brightness and saturation and now here they are, totally guilt free because it's electronic.