Recycling paper is a good idea but not everyone recycles. What we should do is make paper out of something else instead of killing a natural resource. Even at the lowest end of this range that is still a 2-1 ratio and at the higher end it's almost double that. Ness Bismarck State College Our society over uses paper without any concerns for the future. Because one ton of old paper can be made from one ton of old paper we could cut cosumption by one half.
Paper is used for everything, yet taken for granted by much of today's society.
An area larger than Greece is being destroyed each year. When you add that to the chemicals that the paper processing plants are giving off, you realize that health and ecosystem hazards, ozone depletion, and climate change become huge factors. Recycling is the key to keeping our forests, and making the air we breathe clean. We are losing 14 million hectares of forest each year. I believe that this is a very important topic.