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If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber toilet paper (500 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 423,900 trees.
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The weakness of this argument is that the trees that are used in paper products (printing papers, butt-wipe, etc.) are grown on managed farms and are a crop much like vegetables. The average tree is harvestable in 5-7 years. By raising trees in this method, it helps REDUCE greenhouse gases by having more vegetation on the planet. And for the naysayers who talk about the polluting that paper mills create, the level of polluting output has decreased significantly in the last few years to a very minimal level. The recycling process creates more pollutive byproduct than the processing of virgin materials.
Paper products are our friend, not the enemy!
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