BD, recycling paper is extremely bad for the environment. I know the govt-run schools indoctrinate us otherwise, but trust me I've worked for scholars expert in this stuff. The process of leaching ink from the paper involves a highly corrosive acid that is absolute hell on the surrounding ecology, wherever it gets dumped. People recycle paper to save trees, but that makes about as much sense as avoiding beef to save cows. In the short run you spare their life, in the long run they just don't get grown at all. Except in the case of (scowls) government leasing of public land (/scowls) trees are grown by paper companies and regularly replaced. How else to run a business?
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branchandroot
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Date: 2004-09-23 06:04 pm (UTC)