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When you recycle all your paper, you save:
trees
landfill space
water
energy
soil
habitat
and avoid
toxics use
water pollution
air pollution
Did you know?...
Producing recycled paper requires about 60 percent of the energy used to make paper from virgin wood pulp.
Environmental Protection Agency, 2002
www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/wstewise/wrr/factoid.htm
Recycling one ton of newspaper is equivalent to not releasing 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide into the air.
Oregon DEQ, "Rethinking Recycling: An Oregon Waste Reduction Curriculum," 2001
Recycling one ton of newspaper saves the equivalent of 100 gallons of gasoline.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, "Recycling Facts and Figures," PUBL CE-163, 2002
The virgin pulp and paper industry is the largest industrial process water user in the U.S. Approximately 1,551 billion gallons
of wastewater are generated annually by pulp, paper and paperboard manufacturers.
Natural Resources Defense Council, "The Upstream Benefits: Reducing Pollution and the Use of Virgin Resources," February 1997
While paper can be recycled using fewer than a dozen nonhazardous chemicals and bleaching solutions,
most virgin pulp and paper is made using literally hundreds of highly corrosive and hazardous chemicals, including chlorine.
Natural Resources Defense Council, "The Upstream Benefits: Reducing Pollution and the Use of Virgin Resources," February 1997
http://www.nrdc.org/cities/recycling/recyc/chap1.asp
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