Are these statements true? Paper is made from trees that are pacifically grown to make paper.

Trees use Co2,a greenhouse gas, to grow.

Making paper from virgin wood uses less energy.

By not recycling paper and landfilling it that would sequester huge amounts of Co2.

Landfilling paper would save huge amounts of energy by not having to collect it separately from garbage.

Paper is not toxic to the ground when in a landfill.

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• 1.Paper is grown from trees that are SPECIFICALLY grown to make paper!
  2.Yes, in photosynthesis.
  3.No. Think, for example, of the energy required to harvest and transport it. However, you cannot recycle paper indefinitely to make more paper.
  4.Maybe in the short term, but it would eventually be released by decomposition anyway.
  5.No, as it would still have to be transported to the landfill site!
  6.Depends whether it contains toxic substances like inks, fillers etc. General knowledge.
• I have to agree with most of that.
  
  The reason to recycle paper (and everything else) is not to save energy. It is to save space in the landfill. Landfills all over the country are filling up and when they are full where will we put all the trash? It will ALL have to be recycled then, right? If there is no place to put it.
  
  So when people say to recycle to stop global warming, they are just wrong. They are just thinking it is the environmentally responsible thing to do and that global warming is an environmental problem and so the two must be related. That is just sloppy thinking.
• False (wtf is pacifically)
  True (CO2 is used in photosynthesis)
  False
  False (recycling paper generates less CO2)
  False (you can make it efficient)
  False (paper dyes are toxic)
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