Recycle+Paper!!!

[[image:recycle.gif align="right"]]__Recycling Paper__
Has anyone ever asked you "If you love trees then recycle?" Well now you've been asked. For those of you who would like to go a little deeper into the world of recycling, then here it goes. Paper and packaging take up huge portions of waste streams. About 5 million tons of waste, paper is still sent to landforms a year. If you're suprised well thats not all, there is way more then this. So fasten your seat belts because there comes alot more of learning ahead of you.

Paper is the number one material thrown away. For every 100 pounds of trash we throw away 35 pounds of it is paper. Paper fills 30-40% of America landfill space. As paper fills up landfills the chemicals from its ink are released into the environment We use more than 50 million tons of paper each year, which uses more than 850 million trees. To make each week’s Sunday newspaper, 500,000 trees must be cut down. Recycling a single NY Times newspaper we would save 75,000 trees. If all newspaper are recycled, we would save about 250,000,000 trees every year. We throw away enough paper each year that there can be a wall built 12 ft. high stretching from LA to NY.
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 * //Here Are Things You Can Do.....//**
 * Use the smallest size paper possible. If you are writing something like a note and there is space left then you cut it smaller and then use it to write another note later if needed.
 * Recycle paper.
 * Join a recycling program.
 * Print things on reusable paper.
 * If you’re doing a project print more than one thing on one sheet of paper.
 * Use both sides of the paper this equals 50% waste reduction.
 * Make sure there a recycling bin in every classroom at the school you go to.
 * Write on an overhead so the kids at the school you go to an get the question for their homework instead of passing out sheets of paper.

If you didn't know most of these things well now you know what you can do to help the paper problem part of global warming and how much recycling to save trees and how important it should be to us. So we hope that these facts encouraged you to recycle and save our planet.

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