"DID YOU KNOW..."

[chchtati]

"Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees." 

[slim28]

yeah if you use it again

[jester2dr]

My first thought to this was "what about the energy used to recycle the paper, and that trees are a renewable asset.... so i Jumped online and found this....
Paper Recycling—Is It Worth It?Landfills, recycling, and incineration.
By Brendan I. KoernerPosted Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 7:42 AM ET

My office generates an embarrassingly large amount of paper waste, so I'm always careful to place my used documents in the recycling bin. But several of my co-workers refuse to do this, arguing that it takes more energy to recycle paper than it does to manufacture it from virgin materials. Who's right?


If you're talking only about energy inputs, then your co-workers are wrong. Making paper out of discarded memos and e-mails definitely requires less energy than using freshly harvested timber. But the eco-benefits of paper recycling may not be quite as grand as you envision—turning post-consumer paper into saleable products is by no means a clean endeavor. And the environmental advantages vary widely between recycling facilities, depending on their technological sophistication.

Environmental contrarians like your officemates have long contended that recycling paper is a mug's game, since it takes so much energy to remove the ink from discarded sheets. But study after study has debunked this assertion, and the Environmental Protection Agency claims that producing recycled paper requires 40 percent less energy than making paper from virgin wood, or about 10.6 fewer gigajoules per ton of finished product. That may sound dramatic, but it's peanuts compared with the energy savings associated with recycling other common materials. Manufacturing a ton of recycled aluminum cans, for example, requires 218 fewer gigajoules per ton than using virgin ores, while the figure for polyethylene bottles is 55.9 gigajoules.

OK it's cheaper to recycle than make from fresh, I'm still not a tree hugger and love my wood furniture.....  

[SoontobeLane36]

God gave us the trees so I use it the way I need to. Like a home, furniture, to warm myself or whatever. When I lived out in the country I burned everything that would burn. It's a waste of time for me to collect recycled stuff and then take it to the proper facility. I just burn it into ashes.

[jester2dr]

God gave us the trees so I use it the way I need to. Like a home, furniture, to warm myself or whatever. When I lived out in the country I burned everything that would burn. It's a waste of time for me to collect recycled stuff and then take it to the proper facility. I just burn it into ashes.

Yeppers, and the tree huggers can kiss my "ash"!!!!! 

[SoontobeLane36]

God gave us the trees so I use it the way I need to. Like a home, furniture, to warm myself or whatever. When I lived out in the country I burned everything that would burn. It's a waste of time for me to collect recycled stuff and then take it to the proper facility. I just burn it into ashes.

Yeppers, and the tree huggers can kiss my "ash"!!!!! 

ROTFLMAO. HaHahahahahahahahahahahah. 

[dragonfirelaser]

oh cool

[danndamanny]

My question is, how much recycled stuff does it take to make a ton? Is that one family per week? Month? Year?

[mlbevins]

The thing about using trees.  We have to do it, there is no way that were are ever going to get away from using them, and by law once trees are cut the companies have to replant the trees.  You know birds also help with this process.  The trees are much like coal.  Coal will always be used.  If you ever think that wood will be replaced by steel when it comes to buidling homes.  Let me ask you this.  What do you think steel is made of?  Some of it is made by coal.

[forseattle]

I recycle because I'm OCD and I have to separate/organize things (trash included).