| People will often say that it is good to recycle your | | | | this is a complete waste of time and money. |
| paper from the other rubbish you throw into the | | | | And the next negative point is: If the paper costs |
| garbage bin, but is it really worth the effort? | | | | more to transport to the paper recycling mill than to |
| O.K. Let's begin! On the one side, there's Pro; In | | | | dump in a landfill, it will probably be dumped in the |
| Favor: | | | | local landfill anyway. |
| The principal point in support of recycling paper is | | | | Another significant disadvantage is that by recycling |
| that it reduces the number of trees and therefore | | | | you and I actually think that we are saving the |
| also the number of forests that must be felled | | | | environment, whereas we should be doing much |
| around the world each year, for wood pulp. | | | | more to make a real difference. |
| The secondary positive point is: In good times your | | | | And last, however, not necessarily the least thing to |
| local municipal council should be able to make a profit | | | | consider against is that with fossil fuel derived energy |
| from the sale price on the paper they recycle. | | | | being so expensive, and there being a real need to |
| Another big benefit is that the carbon emissions | | | | burn renewable (like wood) fuels, we could just burn |
| created by shipping new paper from the forest to | | | | it in an incinerator. |
| the printer's factory are avoided. | | | | So there you have it, the pros and then the cons, |
| And finally, the recycling jobs that are created to | | | | the points in favor and the points against. So, in your |
| process your recycled materials are local jobs in your | | | | final analysis is recycling paper a good thing? or just a |
| community, which would not otherwise exist. | | | | bad thing? The response is apparently "Yes" to both |
| And on the other side of things, to have this | | | | questions! recycling the waste paper in your |
| balanced, there's Cons; Against: | | | | household is both good and bad. It is left up to you, |
| The primary point against recycling paper actually | | | | the reader to make the decision which side, the good |
| costs money in a recession if there is no market, and | | | | or the bad, outweighs the other one. |