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__**Recycling Paper – Good or Bad**__

“Recycling-Good or Bad” someone once asked me. Well I said badly till I did some research and I figured out that you must recycle. But then someone asked me why? I didn’t know what to say to that so I went home and research some more. “Why must we recycle?” I asked my self while I was researching. People have to recycle.

Most people in America believe that you need to recycle but have they ever thought of why. Every year Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks and spoons to circle the equator 300 times. We should cut that down to 250 times then get less and less every year. More than two billion books, 350 million magazines, and 24 billion newspapers are published each year. We should make more books but not throw away them, instead all people in the world need to recycle them. Since 1960 the rate of office paper recycled has more than quadrupled. We have to help that go up because when it does our plant will be healthier.

Someone may ask you, how does recycling help the environment and society? In 2008, paper and paperboard made up 31% municipied waste. Plastics were 12%. In all the landfills paper takes up the most space. Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees and uses 50% less water than does creating paper from virgin pulp. We all must recycle more so we can save more trees and oxygen. Recycled paper can be used to make more than 5,000 products. We can make that more if we all recycle more.

Some people may wonder, how much money recycling paper saves. Well one way is that it saves 3 to 5 times the energy generated by waste-to-energy plants even without counting the wasted energy in the burned material. The burned material needs to be cut down because it is polluting the air. In 2007, about 360 pounds of paper recycled for each person in the United States. Recycling one ton of mixed paper saves the energy equal 185 gallons of gasoline. Tree farms supply 16% of all the wood used by paper industries. That is bad because if they do then the amount of trees that people cut down will go up and we will have less trees.

A lot of people asked me one day, how much paper is used when you recycle? The average American uses about the equivalent of one 100-foot tall Douglass tree in paper and wood products. An average office uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year in the United States. Office workers generate two pounds of paper and paperboard every day of the year. In one year they generate about 730 pounds of paper and paperboard each year.

Some people think that we should not recycle. One reason is that pulp and paper mills are the worst polluters to water and land. It uses vast quantities of trees. Farms own most of the tree that make paper. Less than 9% of wood is used to make paper are used from old growth trees. Those trees you cannot grow another one in there place because on the wood and soil. But do not get that in your mind because when we do recycle we help, save money, and reduce how much paper we use.

All the people in the world must recycle paper. Recycling helps the environment and society. It also helps save money and it reduces the use of paper. So now that you know a lot about recycling, please recycle in your home and community. Go share the wonderful things of how it helps in everyday life.

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