Comments on: Recycling Facts

By: Office Furniture

Office Furniture — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:15:18 +0000

It’s amazing how much waste there still is. Times are changing though. We as a company have made a big effort to use recycled product in our office furniture, and many others are doing the same in lots of different industries.

By: Blogging Zone

Blogging Zone — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:05:24 +0000

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By: Planet Buzz

Planet Buzz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:28:00 +0000

Being from the great state of Alaska I just have to look around to see the wonders that have been put in our charge. This planet is the only one we will ever have. There is not another one like it as far as we know about. It is our duty, and it should be our honor to protect it in any way possible. Recycling the recourses that we take out must be one of the top goals of every human on the planet.

We are cutting down 24 million metric tons of trees for paper production every year. According to one estimate, the average tree weighs 680 kg, or 0.68 tons. So this means that an estimated 16.32 million trees are destroyed for paper production in the US each year.

One of the largest wasteful paper products is the phone directory. Each year we get a new one and most of the old are going to landfills. Please recycle your phone books and if at all possible opt-out from receiving them completely and use the Internet.

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By: RaiulBaztepo

RaiulBaztepo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:50:58 +0000

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By: Plastic Recycling

Plastic Recycling — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:29:20 +0000

Good article. It’s nice to see numbers yet disturbing to see how much is wasted. I was interesting to hear about the recycling of cell phones. I have about 5 old cell phones packed away and had no idea what to do with them. Thanks for information!

By: PatentGenius

PatentGenius — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:15:16 +0000

It’s amazing how much goes to waste and doesn’t get recycled. Hopefully people can learn to reduce in addition to recycling. With the digital technology available paper use really should be lower. Everything can be emailed, stored digitally and even books are available in digital format. There’s really no excuse to use so much paper.

By: Denver Ken

Denver Ken — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:16:15 +0000

It is really a staggering amount of waste. I had no idea paper was such a major part of the problem. I always thought it was no as bad as plastic since it is a renewable resource. It seems like eventually trees will get to be expensive enough that consumption will go down and everyone will want to grow trees for extra money.

By: paper recycling

paper recycling — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:51:48 +0000

“Please recycle”. A phrase stated on almost all of the plastic and even paper products in the world. These manufacturers encourage us consumers, to get involved into paper recycling, as well as plastic recycling. But to recycle plastics, it will come a long way to be made. There is a certain process of waste recycling especially for these plastic products.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:44:38 +0000

Sara – here’s the page to see the resale value of your cell phone:
http://www.pacebutler.com/images/prices.pdf

Judygifts – Thanks for the observation, we’ll try to add some more detailed content in our next posts.

David – I’m not sure if Hallmark nor the EPA does, reusable greeting cards is certainly a creative, though I can’t think of anyone who use those.