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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby
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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Really???
I didn't know they had tree farms for paper products! I knew logging was controlled, and trees replanted to keep up the forests, but not a real tree farm? That's cool! And I could see how recycling could cause more pollution, they use a lot of chemicals to reprossess the paper, where making the paper uses very little. And paper is biodegradeable (except in landfills it can take hundreds of years due to the lack of water, air, and microbes- but it will break down eventually. Plastic takes thousands of years).