Philately, the king of hobbies, involves paper, paper and more paper. We cut one tree for every 10000 to 15000 sheets of paper and more than 2.5 million trees are cut down every day to make paper. 35% of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries. Paper is used on a very large scale and we need more for the future generations also.
So how can we, as philatelists help to save trees?
We can use recycled/up-cycled papers to send letters and stamps can be printed with recycled papers like the below one.
2017, Environment Day stamp made of recycled paper from Turkey
With the onset of a new year, the calendars adorning our walls are replaced with new ones. Instead of throwing the old calendars, we can make up-cycled covers with them. Below are some covers I got from my friends. We can take out the stamps the same way how we remove them from the virgin covers or we can keep these covers as such in the exhibits to add more colour to it. Lets turn our hobby environment friendly.
I have posted "How to make an envelope" at,
http://philateli.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-make-envelope-easy-way.html
If any body interested in exchanging up-cycled envelopes please contact me at,
priyakothai[at]yahoo[dot]com
