Post Consumer Waste

Paper recycling, on the other hand has been around for much longer. Pulp and paper plants in Canada have been using recycled material for more than 60 years (Bourdages, 1993, para. 4). One of the most obvious environmental benefits of using recycled paper materials, is that it will help to reduce the amount of trees being cut down for production of new paper. Overall, it is evident that there is an established recycling effort in Canada, featuring both positive and negative aspects.

This printer printed by basically spraying ink onto the paper it is printing on. Many people today still use these types of ink-jet printers since they are so efficient and extremely useful in case you want to get something printed with great quality.

If the manufacturers of these products would take them back and reuse them, we would save trees. For example, thousands of trees are cut down in the Amazon Rainforest everyday. When the trees are cut down, animals lose their homes. If animals lose their homes, they can be taken for free game, road kill and food for other animals that wouldn't normally eat them, which might cause that animal to get sick or die. If animals died the food chain would be out of control and possibly lead to the extinction of many species. If other species were to go extinct more and more species would go extinct causing a mass extinction. Most people just throw away paper, which is a waste of trees, animals, and the environment. So if we recycled this paper the more trees, we would save.

Printing in three dimensions introduces a wealth of opportunities with a broad set of applications, but one

Two methods of recycling are in use by people today: single stream recycling and dual stream recycling. The latter involves separating paper and

When you need to purchase new supplies for your child, try to make smart purchasing decisions. Purchase supplies that contain recycled content. For example, it is pretty easy to find affordable pencils that contain 100% recycled content. Look at the ingredient list and information on any school supplies that you purchase, and choose ones that are using post-recycled materials.

In France, 1813, lithography, a mechanical planographic process in which the printing and the nonprinting areas of the plate are at the same level, was popular. On April 1816, Niepce

The biggest source of waste is paper, every time a letter is opened, the envelope is thrown away, and when printing goes wrong the paper is thrown away. Ink cartridges from printers and photocopiers are thrown away when empty, as are multiple pens when they run out of ink.

More than forty percent of logged trees are used for paper. Two to four tons of trees are brought to the mill with old-growth trees supplying nine percent of that fiber for every ton of paper. Paper making requires enormous amounts of chemicals.

The value of recycling paper in a consumer society is the saving of natural resources which would be for each tonne of recycled paper saves 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water. Again there would be the ecological value of less landfill space consumed.

People would say that plastic in landfills would just stay there and if we keep on using plastic the waste problem would just worsen. I think that the problem here is why do people put plastics in landfills mixed with biodegradable materials. There are ways to properly recycle plastic. This comes to my third argument for why plastic beats paper. It is better because we could change its physical shape to things we really need. Richard Stein, from the University of Massachusetts, stated that plastics could be melted and formed into different structures such as propellers for wind turbines, food containers and many more [3]. Imagine being able to reuse plastic as long as the quality of it can still be recyclable, but if it isn’t anymore, Richard Stein also suggested that plastic could be converted to energy by burning it since it is made of petroleum [3].

It's time to think green. To be a responsible citizen, you need to shift from the conventional consumerism method of throwing everything away and start recycling and reusing materials. You can start by cardboard recycling, which is one of the most used products, and it is also one of the most wasteful ones.

The benefit of recycling on the environment is endless even if you are just recycling paper products it can be beneficial. According to a website on recycling paper and other products recycling a single run of the Sunday “New York Times” would save seventy five thousand trees. The amount of wasted land that is left behind by those seventy thousand trees. could have been a strong environment that was destroyed just for a single run of the “New York Times”. According to the same source recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. This energy used to burn the plastic is payed by the American people’s tax dollar that money could be saved by you just by simpling recycling. In the same source it says that approximately one billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the United States this paper thrown away is sent to these giant landfills and cost millions of dollars to dispose of as where if it was recycled we could save money by not having to pay for the paper sent to landfill and save money by not having to have it burned down or stored. The average American uses eighty five million tons of paper a year; about six hundred and eighty pounds per person according to the source earlier

Surprisingly, there is another, more profound process paper has to go through, the manufacturing of the forest trees into chips, which is done in Pulp mills. The steps after the main pulpier, remove imperfections in the mixture, to remove oversize pieces of wood, and then to bleach the fibers to make the paper white. Bleaching is a hugely debated part of the process, involving chlorine or chlorine compounds, Chlorine has significant risk to our environment and humans, to illustrate how serious the health concerns are “Chlorine bleaching was used as a chemical weapon during World War I". (http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/em/chlorine.shtml)(2015) Additionally, Bleaching water waste contaminates our air, water, and soil. Environmental groups in favor of banning plastic bags argue, the manufacturing, ingredients, and the decomposing factors of plastic are harmful to our environment. Moreover, paper bags are a natural resource, such they have the ability to be replenished by planting more trees. In addition, plastic microscopic particles can take up 500 to 1000 years to break down and many animals, on land and sea are ingesting the plastic and dying. Another claimed is plastic is an eyesore, plastic is ending up on our National Recreation Areas, and taking over our landfills. (EPA.org)(2014) Additional arguments include the harmful ingredients use to process plastic and the health issues associated with them. Such as

“Earth Day” by atticot and manning states “Americans use about 69 million tons of paper and paperboard every each year”. Thus we are destroying the earth. Like it says in the article think of a world without plants or animals how would you survive the answer is you can't so please recycle and protect the planet earth!