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One million trees worldwide are cut down each year to make toilet paper. Is it more sustainable to grow your own? In Meru, a town in eastern Kenya, a lush, leafy plant sways over the landscape.

It is a relief printing technique that produces an impression in the paper making it distinctively different from offset printing.” The shop contains a range of stationery supplies, home goods ...