Friday, November 30, 2012

Composting and Recycling

Hi!
I've found a lot of tissues in the trash bin at school. Don't you think it's place is in the paper bin? I think so... So I want to ask the all the sicks (and those who also put paper in the trash) to use the paper bin!
But why do we have to recycle paper?
Some statistics on paper consumption:
  • Recycling 1 short ton (0.91 t) 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 – enough energy to power the average American home for six months.
  • Although paper is traditionally identified with reading and writing, communications has now been replaced by packaging as the single largest category of paper use at 41% of all paper used.
  • 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers.
  • The average web user prints 28 pages daily.
  • Most corrugated fiberboard boxes have over 25% recycled fibers. Some are 100% recycled fiber.
Now I guess you see that we use a lot of paper, that's why we have to recycle it, because we don't have enough trees to cover that huge consumption.
Watch a video about paper recycling:   Following the paper trial
Read more about the issue: at Wikipedia
Please, recycle!
THX


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