Re: The case for recycling
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FWIW, my biology teacher told me when I was a freshman in college that trees release about as much carbon when they decompose as when they were living. I would assume the same is true of paper.
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Roughly, yeah. Also because of the decomposition, landfills are a huge source of methane, which is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2.
In theory the best thing to do with paper would probably be to burn it and use the energy in some way.
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