jkund17
recycled paper-is it really good?
I support recycling anything as much as we can, the more we do it the better our world will be.
We just aren’t doing it enough and perhaps at times we aren’t doing it correctly either. We have become too much of a disposable society. This of course will be argued as beneficial to the world given the pace it is moving, the lack of time in our lives and the convenience of disposable/replaceable goods.
The concern for recycling, (in particular recycled paper), is the process the paper products go through to then become a re-useable, recycled product.
With all the cleaning, bleaching and processing using massive machinery, more poisonous toxins are released into the atmosphere, more water is wasted, more electricity used and perhaps even more waste is created.
It makes me wonder if using recycled paper (and any other product that goes through such processing) is really so good after all.
Are we unknowingly creating more issues?
Are we just kidding ourselves?
Are we turning a blind eye and choosing not to see how the paper comes to being recycled?
What are the options?
Undoubtedly there has to be a better way of doing this? Surely there is a simpler, less time consuming, more environmentally friendly way to recycle paper considering the reason for doing it in the first place.
We just aren’t doing it enough and perhaps at times we aren’t doing it correctly either. We have become too much of a disposable society. This of course will be argued as beneficial to the world given the pace it is moving, the lack of time in our lives and the convenience of disposable/replaceable goods.
The concern for recycling, (in particular recycled paper), is the process the paper products go through to then become a re-useable, recycled product.
With all the cleaning, bleaching and processing using massive machinery, more poisonous toxins are released into the atmosphere, more water is wasted, more electricity used and perhaps even more waste is created.
Are we unknowingly creating more issues?
Are we just kidding ourselves?
Are we turning a blind eye and choosing not to see how the paper comes to being recycled?
What are the options?
Undoubtedly there has to be a better way of doing this? Surely there is a simpler, less time consuming, more environmentally friendly way to recycle paper considering the reason for doing it in the first place.
