Commercial Recycling Commercial Recycling Recycling paper saves valuable landfill space and extends the lives of our landfills. Forty-one percent of landfills is made up of paper and paper products. Other cities surrounding Tulsa such as Broken Arrow, Glenpool, Bixby, etc., use the landfill for disposal of garbage.
Recycling saves valuable resources.
It has been estimated that one ton of office paper saves 17 trees. Throwing away paper is a careless waste of a natural asset. Recycling paper conserves energy. Up to 64 percent less energy is required to produce paper from waste paper instead of from virgin wood pulp. In the case of office paper, the equivalent of almost three barrels of oil is saved for every ton of paper recycled.