Question

Major consumer of wood from the forest is________________.
A) Thermal power plant
B) Paper industry
C) Chemical industry
D) None

Answer 1

Hint: These industries use wood as raw materials and produce many cellulose-based products.

Complete answer:
The major consumer of wood from the forest is the paper industry. It is estimated that 24 trees make 1 ton of standard office paper. Companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products come under the category of the pulp and the paper industry. The modern pulp and paper industry is on a global level with China leading on the top followed by the United States. In India, Kolkata alone produces 18% of the paper.

Additional Information:
The pulp is a renewable, clean, wood-based, biodegradable raw material. This is used to produce paper, board, tissue, and specialty paper – making them truly sustainable bioproducts.
In a thermal power plant, heat energy is converted into mechanical energy by a steam-driven turbine.
The main fuels used are fossil fuels, liquified natural gas, coal, and crude oil.
Companies that produce industrial chemicals come under chemical industries. They convert raw material into 70,000 different products.
Paper has been used widely such as packaging, decorating, writing, cleaning, filter paper, wallpaper, book endpaper, conservation paper, laminate worktops, toilet tissue, etc

So, the correct answer is the paper industry.

Note:
1) In the last 40 years, world consumption of paper has grown by 400 percent.
2) Nowadays around 4 billion trees or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used by the paper industries on every continent.
3) Every day around 2.47 million trees are cut down.