This just in from ananova.com.
Harry Potter goes 'green' for next instalment
JK Rowling says her next Harry Potter book will be printed on environmentally friendly paper.
So far, her novels about the teenage wizard at Hogwarts school, have used up an estimated 6.5 million trees.
The Scottish writer is among a number of authors, including Andy McNab, Philip Pullman and Ben Elton, who have pledged their support for the environment by using recycled paper.
Techniques pioneered in Canada allow, for the first time, paper from waste such as office paperwork to be used to make books, says The Times.
Rowling has guaranteed that her sixth Harry Potter book will be printed either on recycled or on "ancient forest-friendly" paper, which is sourced from sustainable planted forests.
At present, no major publishers of fiction in Britain use 100% recycled paper.
The Canadian edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was printed without chopping down a single tree, saving an estimated 40,000 of them.
Posted by Madmaxime at October 3, 2003 05:08 PM