Friday, April 16, 2010
Paper Recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products.
Industrialized paper making has an effect on the environment both upstream (where raw Trees are cut-down and processed) and downstream (Landfill impacts).
Today, 90% of paper pulp is made of wood.
Recycling of Newspapers saves about 1 ton of wood while recycling 1 ton of printing or copier paper saves slightly more than 2 tons of wood.
Energy consumption is reduced by recycling
Recycling 1 ton of newspaper eliminates 3 cubic meters of the landfill space.
Organic materials, including paper, decompose in landfills, But sometimes slowly, releasing Methane, Which contributes to the green-house gases
It is estimated that 95% of business information is still stored on paper.
Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7 thousand US gallons (26 m3) of water, 3 cubic yards (2.3 m3) of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil (84 US gal or 320 l), and 4,100 kilowatt-hours (15 GJ) of electricity — Which is enough energy to power the average American home for six months
115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers
The average daily web user prints 28 pages daily
The US paper industry has set a goal to recover 55 percent of all the paper used in the US by 2012.
Our Business Recycled Approx. 50 tons Carboard and paper in 2009.. and sent it to be made into more paper
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for paper recycling approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
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