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I wonder whether it takes more carbon emissions to recycle paper than it does to dump the paper in a big old landfill and sequester its carbon away, and manufac
by fennecfoxen 11y ago
I wonder whether it takes more carbon emissions to recycle paper than it does to dump the paper in a big old landfill and sequester its carbon away, and manufacture some new paper.
- smeyer 11y agohttp://epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/warm/pdfs/BackDocForestCarbon.pdf http://epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/warm/pdfs/BackDocFore... Exhibit 4 has some numbers you'd probably find useful, such as the benefit or recycling in terms of tonnes of Carbon per ton of paper recycled. It looks like about 0.6-0.75 tonnes of Carbon per ton of recycled paper.