Guess what – Americans are pretty good when it comes to
paper recycling. But many don’t really
understand why that is such a good thing or what it means. So when you recycle all that paper you in the
blue bin beside your desk in the office, think about this:
Today, according to the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) recycling one ton of paper has numerous benefits such as saving enough
energy to power to the average home for the six months.
You will also be saving 7,000 gallons of water.
You
might ask, how can recycling a ton of paper do all that? Well, the EPA terms it as “light weighting and
source reduction.” The EPA reports on its website: “Light weighting means
reducing the weight and/or volume of a package or container, which saves energy
and raw materials.” The less paper stock
a manufacturer has to make – the less energy and other natural resources they
have to use.
The American Forest & Paper Association
(AF&PA) reports that more paper is recovered in
America for recycling than all other materials combined (except for steel). In
1990, the US forest and paper products industry established a goal of
recovering 40 percent of the paper consumed in the US. That goal was achieved
in 1996 and then the industry went on to establish a 50 percent recovery goal,
which was achieved in 2003, and a 55 percent recovery goal by 2012.
Here is the good news, all the paper recycling efforts in
this country are making an impact. According to an EPA
municipal report, in 2010, Americans generated about 250 million tons of
trash and recycled and composted over 85 million tons of this material. And that is indeed good news!
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