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. Trees in general are a very important factor in our lifestyles.
Trees filter the air and make it clean.
Although many people think that we have a lot of trees it wouldn't hurt to cut down a few thousand but, in fact, those thousand trees are worth a lot more than paper. The collection and reuse of old paper is an important process with regard to energy conservation. That will enable us to conserve energy and fuel as our heating and electricity bills are rising due to the decrease in abundance for these resources. The chemicals and water used during the recycling can also be reused eliminating water pollution and also making paper production more efficient. In contrast, every 2.5-3 tons of virgin wood pulp makes only 1 ton of virgin paper.