Question

What is recycling of paper? How recycling of paper helps in saving trees.

Answer 1

Hint: To conserve our environment and to manage the waste products we use the process of R three.
1. Reuse
2. Recycle
3. Reduce

Complete answer:Recycling: It is the recovery or reprocessing of waste materials for use in new products.
To follow the process of recycling we need to do the following:
1. The collection of waste materials
2. Processing or manufacture into new products
3. Purchase of those products, which may then themselves, is recycled.
The recycling of paper: It is the process by which waste paper is turned into new paper products.
It has a variety of important benefits:
1. It saves waste paper from occupying places at homes of people and producing methane as it breaks down.
There are 3 categories of paper that can be used for making recycled paper:
1. Mill broke.
2. Pre-consumer waste.
3. Post-consumer waste.
Mill broke paper parts and other paper scraps from the manufacture of paper and is recycled in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste is a material which left the paper mill but was discarded before it was used up by the consumer. Post-consumer waste is material thrown after consumer use which includes old magazines and newspapers. Recycling of one ton of paper saves 7000 gallons of water and energy that can light an average home for six months. With every recycle, the paper fibre present in the paper becomes weaker, shorter, and brittle. Paper can be recycled seven times before discarding.

Note: Recycling waste is an excellent way of energy conservation of the ecosystem. As the paper is made from wood, recycling it conserves trees and other natural resources saves energy, and reduces greenhouse gases that are emitted by paper making industries. To make 1 ton of paper we need 17 trees. So, recycling will help to reduce trees cutting significantly.