The message 3f50b61d017eedc343db8cafe0463c07@bouncing.localnet from MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com contains these words:
Sorry, there's no room at the inn^H^H^Hoffice right now. My "spare" space is occupied by a few thousand AFFS leaflets and lots of paper about the Walks in King's Lynn (O! The irony! How many trees have the council sent to their death already in planning this ill-considered project? URL below)
Making paper from trees makes ecological sense, and recycling waste paper doesn't make so much.
In order to grow trees for paper, seedlings have to be planted out to grow into paper trees. Young wood converts proportionately more carbon dioxide than mature trees.
Recycling paper uses almost as much energy as making from wood, (when you take into consideration the people who drive to the collection-points, the collections of those 'deposits', and the subsequent sorting and processing.
And because of the amount of recycling which goes on, less trees are planted...
Now, if waste paper were converted to fuel pellets, that would contribute (slightly) to the reduction in the burning of unrenewables (in a sensible timescale, anyway) such as oil and gas.
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Of course, when everyone has computers, there will be little need for paper, innit.
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