Recycled Paper

The Green Guide is a very good source of information on recycled paper. It's simply unsustainable for us to go on taking our paper from trees and not from recycled paper. Half the world's forests are now gone, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council; 30 million acres more are lost each year, with just 10 billion acres left. By not using recycled paper, but cutting virgin trees instead, we're also losing the services that forests perform for us. Although it's true that trees can be cut and replanted, standard logging practices often destroy valuable forest ecosystems and replace them with single-species plantations that can't provide the kinds of benefits-from sheltering wildlife to preserving clean watersheds-that forests can.

For information about recycled paper, recycled paper products, recycled paper stationery and recycled toilet paper, look to The Green Guide. We cover the issue of paper waste and recycled paper and provide extensive lists of suppliers of recycled paper and recycled paper products.

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