BatonEvery 500 sheets of paper use about 6% of a tree. One tree makes roughly 8,333 sheets.
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Made by students, for students
Your old textbooks
are someone’s
next year.
Remember paying full price for books you used for one year? So did we. Sell, swap or give away your old books to a junior in your city — chat on WhatsApp, meet at school, done.
The Baton Impact Bar
…Students
…Books listed
1Books passed on
0.02Trees' worth saved · estimated
How we estimate
1 books × 200 sheets ÷ 8,333
₹300Saved by families · estimated
How we estimate
1 books × ₹300 average saving
The story behind the exchange
Why we built Baton
A school that prints about 625,000 sheets a year uses roughly 75 trees' worth of paper. (Baton estimate; see how we calculate it)
How we calculated this
625,000 sheets ÷ 8,333 sheets per tree ≈ 75 trees.
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Unsustainable paper production is linked to deforestation in places like Indonesia and the Greater Mekong, damaging the forests that wildlife depends on. (WWF)
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According to a monitoring group's analysis, two major pulp groups and their suppliers cleared 805,000 hectares of Indonesian forest between 2001 and 2022.
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In 2026 India's NHRC issued a notice after a complaint that books from private publishers cost far more than subsidised NCERT textbooks, burdening families.
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Somewhere in India, a senior's storeroom holds the exact books a junior is about to buy new.
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Figures come from the sources linked on each card. Estimates are labelled.
How it works
Honestly, it’s pretty easy
01
List a book
Snap a photo, pick Sell, Exchange or Share. Takes about a minute.
02
Someone texts you
A student nearby sends you a WhatsApp message. No middleman, no fees.
03
Meet up
Hand it over at school, or with a parent around. That’s it.
You can debate deforestation for an hour. Or you can pass on a book today.
Debate
Someone should do something
Not my problem
Let's discuss in class
Students who chose to act: 0·Books passed on: 1·Estimated saved by families: ₹300·Estimated trees' worth of paper saved: 0.02