In 1988, only 35,000 people bought compost bins. In 1992, more then 700,000 people bought them. More than 3 million American homes are now composting, and the number is growing daily. If Americans would simply recycle their paper, and use recycled paper, we could cut our municipal waste almost in half. We could save most of the water, energy, pollutants, air pollution, and all the billions of trees that go into making paper out of forests.
Recycling paper creates five times more jobs and it even saves money.
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries says paper recycling in the US is now saving over 200 million trees per year, even though recycling efforts are nowhere near what they could be. We can also re-use paper. If you have paper that's only used on one side, the other side is still good. You can save it, and take it to a local printing company who will bind it into a new pad or into several smaller pads. You can also reuse envelopes, boxes, and packing materials you receive in the mail.