How will recycling paper help the cutting down of trees?

A unit that produces paper often uses pulp that comes from harvesting lumber in the forests. This has become a focus of contention with lots of individuals who want to make everything that they may in order to save the surroundings, and element of that effort is to try to stop the creation of paper products. read more

But recycling doesn't save trees. At least not in commercial working forests, which is where our pulp and paper comes from. In a commercial forest, the same trees that are used to produce pulp and paper are also used to produce other commodities, such as lumber and veneer. read more

Problem is, this tends to create a false image of wild forests at risk of being cut down because people didn’t conserve paper diligently enough. In reality, paper-pulp forests are sustainable, and owned by the paper companies so they can do whatever they want, within the laws. read more