Why do people at Environmental protests waste so much Paper?

Question

If you are trying to encourage people to conserve paper (save trees), why would you make big signs on paper and dress in cardboard boxes(I recently saw this on TV). Please start with this challenge have a clean protest. The mess on the ground was gross I hope someone cleaned it up.

for people thinking using recycled paper or recycling paper afterward are missing the bigger picture a tree died to make paper. Trees take many years to grow .Everytime something is recycled the process polutes and less end product is made. It is better than new but, people still shouldn't needlessly waste it.Perhaps signs made out of cotton that could be washed and reused (cotton also grows in a shorter time frame than a tree and would encourage people to plant more plants)would be better the added cost night also make them a little more conscience of the mess left behind.

Answer 1

maybe they are just hypocrites...save the animals....chain yourself to trees....i just dont get those ppl

Answer 2

I know! I totally agree with you, I don't understand it either.

I ask the same question about Ithaca College, which I currently attend. Ithaca, the city, and also the college, are both known for their green and sustainable lifestyle. Sustainability is definitely the buzzword on campus and is fervently promoted. Which is fantastic. However, the campus, especially the Office Residential Life, wastes SO MUCH paper. Resident Assistants are required to create 8 bulletin boards a semester with different backing paper each time; multiply that by 80 people (roughly the RA staff) and you have 160 bulletins boards. These boards frequently get ripped down, honestly serve no purpose, and are thrown away every month. That is a tremendous waste of paper!

Also, the Office of ResLife sends out about 100 fliers every day; often more with the addition of Duty Schedules. These fliers are intended to be posted around the RA's floor to inform residents about whatever. This is also a ridiculous waste of paper because half the time no one reads them, they get torn down, or the RA does not put them up.

Bulletin boards and fliers could easily be reduced or eliminated with an email. A ResLife mailing list would still provide residents with information but in a much more sustainable way. Also, this is more efficient. Flier turn around is much slower than typing and sending an email. Doesn't that make a whole lot more sense?

Answer 3

Hopefully, these protesters used recycled paper and cardboard. And (hopefully) when they were done protesting, they recycled that paper and cardboard again.
I agree: let's have "clean" protests....and let's make sure that our protests don't become part of the problem. The Earth is in a big mess; it needs our help! -RKO- 05/15/07

Answer 4

Not all environmental protests are wasting paper. I would think they are smart enough to use recycled paper and also recycle that paper they will be using.Hopefully they were in a city with a recycling attitude.

Answer 5

I agree. You would think words and the message was what they are trying to get out. On top of all that if they left the papers on the ground than there not only wasting paper but polluting.

Answer 6

I have never understood this either! like the people that are protesting fur by tossing blood on people wearing it, or vegetarians that wear and buy leather products. I am all for the environment and recycle and conserve but I try to not be a hypocrite about it.

Answer 7

thats a good question. i've wondered that myself. we can only hope it is recycled paper and continue to do our part to live clean and encourage others to do the same.

Answer 8

If they are true to their cause, then they either use recycled paper or else recycle their paper afterwards. If not, then they are not true supporters and are not conifent in the cause.

Answer 9

all people has to flow via peer evaluate to get their paintings revealed at NASA. whether that's undesirable technology it could desire to on no account be revealed with NASAs call on it. I could desire to ponder whether we are all on Christmas Island. On christmas island the monetary device advance into in line with scaling down wood and rolling those super heads into place on them. somebody present day could desire to have suggested the wood are our source of nutrition and at a undeniable factor if we cut back down too many so as that we can roll heads around we can all die. quicker or later they could desire to have found out that they had cut back down too many and a few could could desire to die. nevertheless no one wanted to alter. ultimately, all of them died. From what I see conservative resistance to alter is so solid that they woud kill the full planet in the past they could replace. All that we could desire to offer up are the smells of pollutants and the sounds of the indoors combustion engine.

Answer 10

Simply put...

Because they think that getting their message out is worth the paper that they used to do it.

Answer 11

Well for one paper is BIODEGRADEABLE so even if they left it on the ground it would've ended up somewhere it could decompose in peace, and for another thing you sound like the type of person that doesn't care anyway! You should be ashamed of asking such a hypocritical question in the ENVIROMENT section!