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Pulp and Paper Merit Badge Overview

Here’s an astonishing number to digest. Each person in the United States uses about 700 pounds of paper each year. Paper is everywhere in our lives. Every year in the United States, more than 2 billion individual books, 24 billion newspapers, and 350 million magazines are published on paper.
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Pulp and Paper Merit Badge Requirements

The previous version of the Merit Badge requirements can be found in Scoutbook

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The requirements will be fed dynamically using the scout book integration
1. Tell the history of papermaking. Describe the part paper products play in our society and economy.
2. Learn about the pulp and paper industry.
  • (a) Describe the ways the industry plants, grows, and harvests trees.
  • (b) Explain how the industry manages its forests so that the supply of trees keeps pace with the demand.
  • (c) Tell how the industry ha