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Not enough people recycle the paper that they use, which is a real shame because there are many benefits to be had from doing so. What are those benefits? Well, these are some of the main ones...
We all know that we should be recycling the paper that we use, but very few of us actually do it. Why is that? It is not difficult to do, so the assumption must be that we are not fully aware of the benefits that it provides. With that in mind, what follows is a look at the main benefits to be had from recycling paper... - Forests, and the wildlife that live within them, are destroyed as a result of our excessive use of paper. Put simply, the less paper we recycle, the less trees we need to cut down. As well as the effect on wildlife and plant-life, excessive deforestation also creates visual scars on our beautiful planet. Once a forest has been cut down, there is little to no chance of that land ever being home to an ecosystem again. - There are many useful everyday items that can be made from recycled paper. These are some examples - newspapers, phonebooks, cardboard boxes, envelopes, egg cartons, paper towels, toilet paper and notebooks. If items such as these are not made from recycled paper then more trees have to be cut down to produce them, which really is a waste, as these items are equally good made when they are made from 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. |