Paper can be recycled into new paper and other products. These organics include food scraps, leaves and yard wastes, agricultural crop residues, paper products, sewage sludge and wood. They are found everywhere. They breakdown leaf litter, and other organic material into inorganic nutrients that all autotrophs need for survival. However, recently microbes have been used in the breakdown of certain types of pollution.
Pollution comes from man-made items.
Most of these items are made of materials and compounds, such as oil, that cannot be readily broken down. The garbage that was made from organic substances, such as anything made from wood or fiber from any type of plant are readily broken down and are eventually put back into the nutrients within the soil unlike those made from petroleum oils. This is all part of nutrient cycling, and without the microbes, this breakdown would not be possible. Another form of pollution comes in the form of chemicals. DDT is one of the most controversial chemicals right now.