My father built a television set that lasted twenty-five years. Today, they last about ten, and then they land in the dump. Judging from last week's DM article on recycling, that's not all that's landing in the dump. Several people have asked me over the past year what I think about the fact that the contents of Ole Miss' recycling bins are being placed in the dumpsters and going to the dump. First, let's look at paper.
Paper is produced from trees.
Everyone knows that. It takes 24 trees to produce a ton of paper. In this, the age of global warming, we need trees. Trees act as a carbon sink. They extract carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, from our atmosphere and use it in photosynthesis.