Why would one recycle paper?

Question

Why would one recycle paper?

Answer 1

to use it over again and help conserve trees.

Answer 2

To allow more paper (and other products) to be produced without destroying trees.  

Although that's only half the circle; to make it complete, you need to buy the products that are made from recycled items.

Answer 3

One would recycle paper for various reasons. one good reason that is usually an answer for enviormental questions is that it is good for the enviorment. it saves the trees from being cut down and that helps with the world because trees help with oxygen because trees take in carbon dioxide and crete oxygen!

Answer 4

if you can make a product with a fraction of the energy by using recycled pulp, why wouldn't you?  It makes much more economic sense to just reuse the paper we've already made, re-process it and use it again.  Plus, no raw materials need to be made from trees. And none of that paper winds up filling a landfill.

It's the same logic as why we recycle anything.  Plastics are perhaps the most dramatic example of gains from recycling.

But regardless of the materials, there are trade-offs.  Recycled paper isn't quite as strong as new pulp.  So, they mix the two... and the product is plenty good, and still making good use of existing materials.

Answer 5

Burn It to heat your house! Save on the Oil crisis by:

1.heating your house by not using fuel oil or some other non-renewable resource

2.not making a truck haul it back to the processing plant

3.not making the fossil-fuel-powered plant process it

Answer 6

I would recycle more than one-and have. It saves trees. It keeps carbon out of the garbage. It saves money. It keeps our home clean.

We have the technology to move past the carbon debate. We do not have time to go through the government red tape. With oil on the decline, we have to make massive changes, swiftly. But we have to take the time to get it right. We can not do this twice, or three times - like in the past; we have to put our money in the best return on investments and where we get multiple benefits. We have had most of this technology for 20 years but have not implemented it. We know what is cost effective; we know where we need better technology. Without governments mandating renewable resources that do not harm the environment, we are doomed. The fossil fuel depression with global warming will be the worst economic downturn in world history. But this is not doom and gloom; we have the ability to fix our mess and enough time. Solar Concentrating Electric Power Plants, wind, wave, small hydro-electric, geothermal, and nuclear energy are what we need. We must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, global warming and cleanup) for oil, natural gas, coal, cigarettes, cooling towers, cars, trains and airplanes. Raising the price of fossil fuel today gives us more time to solve these problems and helps pay for the 20 Trillion Dollars worth of renewable energy over the next 10 years. Remember knowledge is power and this information is very powerful. Humans have 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that runs on cheep oil, natural gas, or coal.

I attended the Focus the Nation at Sierra College on 1-31-08. The event was the 2% Solution, a 2% reduction over 40 years to solve global warming. Oil is a nonrenewable resource and we are running out-but not soon – anyone now want to pay $30 per gallon for gas. The problem is the oil will be gone in less than 30 years at present rates of consumption without projected increases and shortages (gone at least to run cars, heat homes, power electric plants or air travel). The 2% Solution is ok for the USA for a 10 year plan to cut 20%, but I would prefer a 5% Solution over the next 10 years for a 50% reduction. At the same time, we have to be building renewable energy so at the end of 10 years we can cut an additional 20%. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak NG in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. Over the next 90 years carbon dioxide is projected to skyrocket as human’s burn more fossil fuels, but we have to come up with what will take its place and cleanup our mess. One of the big problems we have is at some time Yellowstone will blow its top again, as the magma move closer to the surface, creating a nuk winter. After that we will not have to worry about the destruction of the ozone layer, global warming or pollution.

Many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction.  Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes (where and when). Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. The fact is Bush wants to buy food from out side the USA to send to starving people since our grain is not available. Now what USA Presidential candidate is giving you the facts so you can make an educated decision of which one to vote for?

But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and we are far behind).

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface. Watch for changes in the sight coming soon.

Answer 7

so that we dont kill trees. if we kill trees then there will b less oxegen. and when all the trees are gone there will b no oxegen and then we'll all die and the earth will shrivel up and turn into mercury or something

Answer 8

A lot of paper is made from trees so if every one recycled paper less trees would be cut down for that purpose.

But we can make paper from many other plants ,like marijuana .papyrus,bamboo and rice to name but a few.

Answer 9

Help environment.

Answer 10

You got lots of good answers.  That's probably because you weren't asking silly questions about global warming on mars or is Al Gore's house too big.

I would add that we should start making paper from hemp, which is more sustainable than using trees.  And we should get rid of the stupid law that forbids growing hemp.   It's not like you can get high on it.  It is also useful for making clothing, rope etc and the seeds are highly nutritious.

  One answer is spam though.  cmon man you're making us environmentalists look bad.  There are other venues to sell your products.  Hope you do well but, this isn't the place to advertise.

Answer 11

I would ask, if you love tree's , shade from the hot summer sun and just a lovely green canopy instead of stark horizons bare of tree's, why wouldn't you recycle paper!?

If you could save a life walking across a street, would you!? If you could save a tree recycling what you would otherwise throw in the trash, would you!?

I even know people that make paper out of dryer lint. There's all sorts of ways to save tree's, that are the oxygen supply for Mother Earth and her human children. So maybe the larger question is, why wouldn't you want to save your Mother!?