recycled paper?

Question

why dont they ever make 100% recycled papper its allways 30% or 50% recycled dose anyone know why?

Answer 1

That is because the fibres of paper break when they recycle, so if they just use recycled paper, the new product will be very weak.
Some products can be all recycled, like toilet paper, but others like paper for your printer can not.

It also gets worse when paper go through the system for a second and third time, so the factories only use 100 % recycled when they know it is not going to be recycled again.
(But some companies use less recycled than could be done, as little as they can get away with and still give you a good feeling.)

Answer 2

recycling is a great idea but not for paper and cardboard it is more enviromentally frendly to place paper and cardboard in landfill rather than recycling it.

if trees from renewable forests are used to make the paper and cardboard then
1. the wood used to make the product is from a completely renewable source.
2. all of the carbon making up the wood of the tree has been removed from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
3. making paper from wood pulp uses less poluting chemicals than are used to clean and recycle the paper.
4. if after use the paper and cardboard are placed in landfill it is sealed away from the atmosphere, and although they are concidered biodegradable this fact is almost meaningless as they would be sealed away from the oxigen in the atmosphere.
5. the small ammount of deccay that would occur would result in methane and can be used to create clean power.
6 locking the carbon in paper and cardboard underground has the oposite effect to the digging up and burning of fosil fuels.
7. the operators of renewable forests are more profitable resulting in them buying more land and planting more trees.