Paper Recycling - A Look at the Benefits it Offers
Recycling paper is not difficult to do and provides various benefits, however, most of us still do not do it often enough - if at all. What follows is a review of some of the benefits on offer. After reading through them, hopefully you will be more aware of the importance of recycling at least some of the paper that you use.
- Recycling reduces the number of trees that are cut down to make paper. It lessens the intensity of forest management needed to meet the demand for paper, and the pressure to convert natural forests and ecologically sensitive areas (such as wetlands) into tree plantations. Therefore, recycling paper helps preserve the range of values provided by forest ecosystems, including wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
- A lot of everyday items (newspapers, cardboard boxes, envelopes, egg cartons, paper towels, toilet paper, etc.) can be made from recycled paper. These items do the same job whether they are made from 'new' paper or recycled paper, so it makes so no sense to not make them from recycled paper. The problem is we are not recycling enough paper to be able to make these items from only recycled paper.
- Money can be saved in two ways by recycling paper. Firstly, from a manufacturing point of view, it costs much less to turn waste paper into new paper products than it does to turn trees into new paper products. Secondly, as consumers, by buying recycled products we can save money as they nearly always cost less than ones made from virgin pulp. In these harsh economic times, avoiding unnecessary leakage in any part of the economy makes sense.
- Pollution is reduced by recycling paper. Paper manufacturing plants are responsible for pumping huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere, and that needs to be reduced where possible. As it is easier to create paper products from waste paper than raw materials, less pollution is created when we focus on the former. The paper that we unnecessarily throw away also ends up polluting the environment. Most of it ends up it landfill sites or being incinerated.
- It takes less energy to manufacture recycled paper and, as most of the energy that we use comes from fossil fuels, this can have a major effect on the environment. Any opportunity to use less coal and oil should be readily taken up. Maybe in the future, when we use more environmentally friendly forms of energy this will not really matter, but for the foreseeable future we have to cut back on the amount of energy that we waste as it damages the environment to create it.
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- Recycling reduces the number of trees that are cut down to make paper. It lessens the intensity of forest management needed to meet the demand for paper, and the pressure to convert natural forests and ecologically sensitive areas (such as wetlands) into tree plantations. Therefore, recycling paper helps preserve the range of values provided by forest ecosystems, including wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
- A lot of everyday items (newspapers, cardboard boxes, envelopes, egg cartons, paper towels, toilet paper, etc.) can be made from recycled paper. These items do the same job whether they are made from 'new' paper or recycled paper, so it makes so no sense to not make them from recycled paper. The problem is we are not recycling enough paper to be able to make these items from only recycled paper.
- Money can be saved in two ways by recycling paper. Firstly, from a manufacturing point of view, it costs much less to turn waste paper into new paper products than it does to turn trees into new paper products. Secondly, as consumers, by buying recycled products we can save money as they nearly always cost less than ones made from virgin pulp. In these harsh economic times, avoiding unnecessary leakage in any part of the economy makes sense.
- Pollution is reduced by recycling paper. Paper manufacturing plants are responsible for pumping huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere, and that needs to be reduced where possible. As it is easier to create paper products from waste paper than raw materials, less pollution is created when we focus on the former. The paper that we unnecessarily throw away also ends up polluting the environment. Most of it ends up it landfill sites or being incinerated.
- It takes less energy to manufacture recycled paper and, as most of the energy that we use comes from fossil fuels, this can have a major effect on the environment. Any opportunity to use less coal and oil should be readily taken up. Maybe in the future, when we use more environmentally friendly forms of energy this will not really matter, but for the foreseeable future we have to cut back on the amount of energy that we waste as it damages the environment to create it.
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