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Originally Posted by Rc mayhem
It is actually more damaging to recycle paper than to get new.
Paper comes from wood, a renewable source. The whole destroying rainforrests thing has nothing to do with paper as paper comes from "paper forrests", forrests that would not be there if not for been used for paper. Therefore there is no supply problem.
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Soil erosion from continual harvesting
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The energy cost of picking up a lorry, taking it to a recycling plant,
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Usually much less significant than moving lumber from a forest to the paper plant
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remaking it into paper (which creates some toxic sludge that you have to deal with)
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again, a fraction of what virgin paper needs
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and transporting this new paper to the printers is far more than the energy cost to make new.
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Therefore yes think about the globe, but in the case of paper buy from new paper from sustainable forrest (like it all is in most countries) rather than buying recycled.
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(got to love watching penn and teller bullsh*t)
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take that, Science!