14. Find out how much cellulose is made by all the plants in the biosphere and compare it with how much of paper is manufactured by man and hence what is the consumption of plant material by man annually. What a loss of vegetation!
Paper is made up of pulp of wood which is mainly constituted by cellulose. The cellulose is a polymer of glucose molecules joined together. About 85 billion tonnes of cellulose is formed annually in the biosphere. Paper manufacture consumes 0.5 billion tonnes of wood. The increase in consumption of wood has led to a great loss in vegetation.