Recycling Helps Slow Global Warming Products made from recycled materials require much less energy to manufacture. Saving energy means less carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. Recycling paper products such as newspapers and cardboard saves trees. The average Canadian family uses up to 12 trees every year in paper products. Most of this ends up in garbage dumps and landfill sites.
Trees play an important role in regulating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Saving trees helps stop global warming. More than half of all solid waste collected in Canada is made up of consumer or household garbage. Natural communities of plants and animals cannot plan ahead for climate change. Unfortunately, they must wait until they are experiencing the effects of change before attempting to adapt. Humans, however, can and should take positive steps now.