Origamido, Unryu and Lokta are from plants such as abaca, mulberry and flax. They are renewable and usually planted especially for papermaking, which means that those papers are more eco-friendly than other mass-produced papers.Wuggums47 wrote:A lot of the really good papers out there aren't made from wood pulp. Unryu, most recipes of Origamido, and Lokta are all made of other things, most of which I think are renewable. I suppose not many people would practice with those papers, but When making a really good model, you might want to use one of those papers. However honestly speaking I place a high value on the creation of art as part of the human experience. How many pieces of paper can a single tree make? How many priceless artworks is that? I don't mean to sound callous, but I'm not sure I care so much about trees that I would want to limit origami. It's not like we make our paper out of endangered species. A much more destructive hobby would be scrimshaw, they use ivory to make it.
~60.000 A0 sheets of printer paper can be produced from a single tree, enough to last for the average folder a lifetime. The worldwide paper consumption by origamists is very small compared to other domains. I don't even know if 0.001% of paper produced annualy gets folded.
