Is reusing or recycling paper better?

Question

I'm doing a school speech on recycling paper and I just need to know if reusing is equivalent to recycling. Thanks :)

Answer 1

The 'three Rs' are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Reduce is pretty self-explanatory; you cut down on waste by only using what you need, example: copying and pasting information onto a Word document and printing, rather than just printing the whole website and throwing the rest away. Also, printing double-sided helps to reduce wastage. Reusing is when you use the paper more than once or in a different way, whereas recycling is the actual process of remaking the paper...

So when you reuse paper, you might use the other side, use it for papier-mache in an art project, etc., but when you recycle it it's something completely different...

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Reusing paper is just using a scrap piece of paper for something else.  

How about recycling "reused" paper once you are done with it?  That sounds like the best solution.

Answer 3

Definitely both!  But don't forget to Reduce, too!

Reduce -->  Reuse -->  Recycle

Like the Earth Day commercial: "If you're not recycling, you're throwing it all away!"

Here is a link with some good information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_c...

Answer 4

i think it is the same because when you recycle you are giving it to someone who is going to reuse it ,just in a different form

Answer 5

If you find scrap paper, you can re-use it, and when you are done, you can recycle it.

Answer 6

Well when paper is recycled, the paper fibers lose a little bit of strength, so each time paper is recycled, it gets a little "worse."  I guess if you want to go that route, reusing it indefinitely without recycling it would be better, but that, of course, is impossible.

Answer 7

reuse it first...then recycle it!

Answer 8

with reusing you might run out,, i think recyclying .x

Answer 9

Re-use is better than recycle. Say you have a paper bag.  You use it to carry groceries.  You save it to use it to carry groceries again the next time you go to the store.  You keep re-using until it is damaged and can't carry groceries any more; then, you put it into the recycle bin.  Say I have a paper bag that I carried groceries from the store.  It is still in excellent shape, but I put it in the recycle bin.  Energy and other resources are used to transport the bag, to sterilize, to grind up, and to reform the bag into a usable paper.  You are more "green" than I am because you got far more use out of the bag.

Answer 10

I think you should say both. I mean you shouldn't have to choose because firstly you can reuse paper and THEN recycle it and secondly it IS almost the same thing because the paper you recycle will be reused anyways