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| - Paper is the number one material in the solid waste stream. For every 100 pounds of trash we throw away, 35 pounds is paper. Newspapers take up about 14 percent of landfill space, and paper in packaging accounts for another 15 to 20 percent. A ton of paper made from recycled fibers instead of virgin fibers conserves:
* 7,000 gallons of water
* 17-31 trees
* 4,000 KWh of electricity
* 60 pounds of air pollutants
- Paper is left in a paper product, the paper turns yellow and Recycled paper fiber is usually mixed with recycled paper when new paper products are made. Most cardboard boxes are a mixture of 50 percent new and 50 lumber. However, a recycling mill may consume more fossil fuels than a paper mill. Paper mills generate much of their energy from waste wood, but recycling mills purchase most of their energy from local power companies or use on-site cogeneration facilities. Making recycled paper does require fewer chemicals and bleaches than making all-new paper. Although recycled paper is less polluting than paper made from wood fiber, both processes produce different by-products. Paper mills may emit more sulfur dioxide, but recycling mills may produce more sludge. Deinking at Cross Pointe’s Miami, Ohio mill results in 440 pounds of sludge for every ton of wastepaper recycled. recycling Cardboard saves 24% of energy recycling Paper saves 40% of energy and 73% of air pollution this totals to saving 64% of energy and 73% of air pollution Paper recycling does mean fewer trees are used to make paper, but all-new paper is almost always made from trees specifically grown for papermaking. A tree harvested for papermaking is soon replaced by another, so the cycle continues. “We are not talking about the rain forest or old growth in the Pacific Northwest,” says Champion Paper’s Martin Blick. “Most of the trees cut for paper come from fifth or sixth generation pulp-wood forests.” If everyone in America recycled 1/10 newspapers, we could save 25,000,000 trees a year, 235,375,000 cubic meters of rain, 832,500,000,000,000/17 btu's of energy, 600,000 tons of CO2 a year, 40,850,000,000/69 tons of soda ash, 81,700,000/3 metric tons of fossil fuels, 750,000 tons of air pollution per year, 40,850,000/3 metric tons of carbon monoxide, 6,944,500/3 metric tons of solid particles, 37,500 tons of particulates each year, 65,360,000,000 square meters of natural habitat potential, 384,973,822/9 metric tons of ethanol, 50,000 tons of ozone each year, 196,080,000 metric tons of life, 8,170,000/3 metric tons of nitrogen oxides, 306,375,000/11 metric tons of coal/Fe , 2,451,000,000,000/407 square meters of biomass, 26,000,000/81 tons of dust each year, a 37,500,000 cubic meter lake, 6,776,000,000/9 decibels of sound intensity, a 4,050,000/17 cubic meter container of biodiesel, 300/11 tons of sulfur hexafluoride, 1,250,000/1,341 tons of U , 15/308 tons of octane, 45,000 tons of B , 57,190,000 metric tons of shells, 115,625,000/561 tons of Al , $1,500,000,000.00 in H2O , gain almost 3,250,000 tons of O per year
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