Recycling reduces paper waste by 50% in
America. Recycling 1 ton of paper saves around 682 gallons of oil, 26,500
gallons of water and 17 trees. Every tree produces oxygen. People don’t think
about reusing paper enough. They just take a paper and throw it away, but you
can just use the other side. In the US with all the paper we waste, we could
build a 12 foot high wall from New York to California in a year. Recycling the
paper that one American uses in a day would create enough oxygen for three
people to breathe. The more you reuse paper the less landfill there will be.
People don’t think how much cleaner
the world would be if we recycled. Recycling and reusing paper is 194 times
cleaner to the earth, than putting it in landfill. Reusing and recycling clean
white paper creates 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution then
using paper. For every one million ton of newspaper that is recycled we save
3,000,000 barrels of oil. For every one million ton of office paper that is
recycled we save 2,000,000 barrels of oil. That’s why we should reuse paper. That’s
how much we’ll save.
This is what you can do to save
paper. You can use newspaper to wrap a present in place of wrapping paper.
Don’t use paper a lot, unless you reuse both sides of it. Don’t use paper
towels. Instead use a cloth towel. Now you know what you need to do to save
paper.
Let me explain what I am doing or
plan to do over the summer to save paper. I already reuse and recycle paper. I
will try not to use paper plates or cups at home. I plan to get E-mail to save
paper. I plan not to buy lots of paper because it will save money and paper.
Now that you know what to do to save paper, you try! If you see people being
wasteful with paper just say, “Don’t do that!” People don’t see how they’re
making a mess of the world.
I am a kid and a little brother. I
see using paper differently than adults. I say to myself, “That is a bad choice
to make!” I don’t throw away paper a lot. Switch to e-mailing to save lots of
oil and resources. I hope you help to save water, trees and lots more. I hope
you see that wasting paper is a bad habit. Don’t buy too much paper and don’t
waste it.
