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You can take this a step further and just cut down trees, bury them in the ground and let new trees grow. Do your part, and don't recycle paper, instead make s

• manifestsilence 7y ago
  That's an important point - where those trees go when they die is part of the puzzle. Systems thinking is important. When a tree decays, I wonder how much carbon goes into the soil vs. into the air. What about when a forest fire goes through? More frequent controlled burns help prevent catastrophic forest fires, but do they cause a smaller or larger overall co2 release? On the one hand, a firestorm causes entire trees to explode that would otherwise survive with little damage. On the other hand, frequent burns might burn material that would otherwise decay into soil...
  • etrautmann 7y ago
    The form of carbon is also important - if methane is produced during decomposition it is much worse as a greenhouse gas than CO2
• MertsA 7y ago
  Any paper in a landfill is going to decompose back into CO2. You'd be better off recycling it and reducing demand for lumber.