Paper recovery and recycling sees impressive growth in the U.S.
57.4 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered and recycled in 2008, but can we reach 60 percent by 2012?
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i am glad to read such titles / statistics. I work at a shredding paper fort lauderdale and i can see that in the past years our business grew fast due to people's awareness of recycling benefits !
About 35% of landfill garbage is paper and paper products.
Printing, the use of paper, or toner, willdrop out of habit by the American population as the Internet accessibility in the U.S.A. begins to approach world levels. Poor Yankee Doodle, still using postage stamps and paper communication for lack of good computers, freedom from Microsoft's tax on the American industry, and pis poor connections compared even to Japan, Europe, Canada! Even the French police use Ubuntu - open source software, and the MacBook with linux core proves superior, but.... More
There is about 4 qts of oil used to make every single new laser printer toner cartridge. The recycling industry has become very reliable and can reuse a cartridge with as good or better performance than the original. Returning your toner to the manufacture is actually preventing recycling, not supporting it. Those cartridges end up in a land fill in a third world country where children scrape them clean and then melt the plastic in big fires.
Major companies could not only save hundreds.... More
