Paper Waste Management (Addition Post)

There is no doubt that we all use and need paper. In fact, people use billions of pieces of paper in just one day. In spite of all this, does anyone really care where this paper comes from? All the paper we use results in the death of millions of trees. These trees are actually needed very much for something else: supplying oxygen. Since we need paper and we need trees, why waste either? The solution is recycling because it allows us to reuse paper, saving our trees. There are three ways to reduce paper waste.

The first way is waste preventing by using less paper. If you are going to print think before you print and ask your self do really I need to print that document? And how many copies do I want to print? Also you can print your documents on both sides (Watson). Train the stuff in how to use and recycle the paper (Bashford).

The second way is how to re-use the paper to use it as products. Using of waste paper can be produced again and use it in different process. For example, we can use waste paper to produce it again and again by producing paper bags and use them for shopping rather then using plastic bags. Also we can produce more envelopes from the paper wasted.

The third way is recycling which helps us to reduce of taking down trees. This process is carried out by dividing materials in different divisions. For example magazine, newspaper and story books (Kyd). So that we don’t burn paper which are not useful.

In conclusion, many solutions came from recycling allow us to save more trees, energy and reducing the waste. Paper is all around us and the demand for paper is increasing. With hundreds of final uses, paper satisfies many important human needs - paper is a part of everyday life. Remember if you forget trees, trees will forget you.




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Kyd, Charles W. "Waste not, want not; exhorting employees to reuse paper clips is not an effective way to reduce your costs; getting rid of waste is." Inc.. v9. n13 (Dec 1987): p177(2). Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Higher Colleges of Technology. 1 Dec. 2008

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