CONSERVE PAPER!

                       We lose too much paper by people using it when they don’t need to and by people littering. If just 5 average families (4-5) people each switched to an e-filing, an email tax filing system, we would save up to 1.4 trillion pounds of paper. Every year the junk mail industries, creators of useless magazines and mail letters, destroy approximately 100 million pounds of paper. Recycling 1 ton of paper could save 20 trees. 3,000 tons of used paper towel ends up in U.S landfills every day. Put this in your mind because you still have reasons to get involved and other cool but disappointing stuff to go through.

                Wow, you’re amused? Well if you aren’t then read this paragraph.  It just might change the way you use/recycle your paper. Over 40% of wood pulp goes to the production of paper. The cost of using paper in an office can run from 13 to 31 times as buying the paper in the first place. If all the Sunday papers in North America were recycled, more than 500,000 trees a week would be saved. The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. Still not getting this? Well maybe with luck the next paragraph will change your recycling ways.

                Okay, here are some ideas for you if you are still with me. When you’re writing/drawing something, try to fill in the whole page or use both sides. When you throw away a piece of paper you might think “Bam! It’s gone!” But it actually goes in a landfill. When you recycle paper please throw it away in the right bin, the recycling bin. Don’t just recycle drawing/writing paper, recycle other paper products like milk cartons too. Oh, so you think I’m not helping? Well let me give you some better explanations of how I am helping to conserve paper.

                So here are some ways I help and if they don’t help, then that’s great, but you should at least try them out. You can learn to do origami with used paper and napkins. Make silly puppets out of paper bags you can get at the market. Use a paper shredder, the shreds are good for hamster cages. You have successfully made it through my recycling story. If you liked it then maybe change some of your recycling ways. Thank you!

Here is a little extra paragraph that might help you a teensy bit more. When someone throws something like a gum wrapper or a shred of newspaper on the ground it takes so long to decompose and it spreads germs and kills animals. I believe that grown-ups might have thought about this too as kids, but now don’t even think about it when they throw paper on the ground.  But we need to think about littering and wasting paper, what it is doing to animals and how it is effecting the Earth.