Recently we got phone books on our driveways and I remembered what happened last time. Last time people left them on their driveways and at the mailboxes. They will just sit there and look ugly! If you see any phone books on a vacant home please pick them up. Also if you do not want your books you can take them to the school and put it in the recycle dumpster. Not only will you help keep our neighborhoods looking clean but your also helping the economy! Here are some statistics about recycling paper from www.epa.gov
Benefits of Paper Recovery
The economic and environmental benefits of paper recycling are many. Paper recovery:
- Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that could lead to damaging climate change.
- Saves money since recycling fiber is cheaper than harvesting and processing virgin fiber.
- Saves considerable landfill space, since paper products constitute the largest fraction of MSW—accounting for nearly 40 percent of all MSW generated, according to EPA.
- Reduces the volume of waste burned in waste combustors, thus reducing air emissions.
Recycling and source reducing paper products reduces energy consumption, decreases combustion and landfill emissions, and decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When you reduce or recycle paper products, trees that would otherwise be harvested are left standing. These living trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. On the other hand, when trees are harvested for papermaking, carbon is released, generally in the form of carbon dioxide. When the rate of carbon absorption exceeds the rate of release, carbon is said to be "sequestered." This carbon sequestration reduces greenhouse gas concentrations by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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