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Home -> Resources -> Twenty-One Green IT Tips -> 17. When Printing, Recycle Paper Afterwards
17. When Printing, Recycle Paper Afterwards Quite a lot of paper gets put into landfills. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, 40% of the material that goes into landfills is made up of paper. But that is okay, right? Paper is bio-degradeable after all. Paper In Landfills Does it make a difference whether you throw paper out with the trash versus recycling it? Paper is biodegradeable, but when it does degrade it generates methane. Methane is a  Greenhouse Gas
that is ten times worse than Carbon Dioxide in terms of its impact on the ozone. It also takes up space, and landfills are filling up fast.Web search: Paper In Landfills
A better alternative is to sort your waste material. Send as much paper as you can to be recycled. Used paper can be cleaned and re-used as recycled-paper, and that takes fewer resources -- energy and water -- than what is required to create new paper. |
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