What kind of paper can you recycle?

Answer 1

To directly answer your question, almost all paper can be recycled. However, do you have any idea how bad recycing really is for the planet? Think it through:

Thanks to the logging industry, there is actually more forested area in the U.S. than in the 1950's. That means there is actually MORE habitat for wild animals. It also means that if the logging industry ceases to exist, our forests will cease to grow, habitats will shrink as animal populations grow.

Many paper industries have their own forests that they manage specifically to keep up with the demand for their products. Do you get that? The more trees we use for paper, the more trees they plant. While the industry does create pollution, they also re-plant the resources that help the earth heal itself.

To recycle paper, a special truck is dispatched to pick up the material. This adds unneccesary pollutants to the air. The material is then cleaned chemicly. Those toxins have to go somewhere too, and eventually end up where all the other toxins do; in our soil and water. Then of course the paper itself must be made, which creates waste that also goes right back into the environment. In other words, the recycling process actually uses twice the energy, and produces twice the waste as manufacturing paper from virgin wood! It also produces inferior products, meaning that there is no real justification at all for the actual process.

Here's the kicker; companies that recycle paper do not require the virgin materials (ie: trees) to make their products, and therefore do not make any overt efforts to renew them. The entire recycling industry in America plants less trees in a decade than one logging company plants in a year.

Trees remove toxins from the air. If we plant more trees, we remove more toxins from the air. I don't know about you, but I like clean air. I mean it! I like a lot of clean air...

Paper is bio-degradable. That means that it will degrade naturally in a landfill. Landfills create methane gas as materials break down. Methane is a renewable, clean burning fuel that can be harvested for the production of energy. Landfills on the west coast are currently using this technology to power towns. A large landfill equiped with this technology can supply 60,000 homes with electricity for roughly 30 years. That means that no oil or coal are used to power these homes.

So, when you recycle paper you are helping to shrink our renewable resources, adding unneccesary pollution to the planet, and killing off wildlife by encouraging the shrinkage of their natural habitats..

Recycling paper? Congrats, you are officially an eco-killer...

-SD-

Answer 2

Virtually any kind of paper can be recycled. Usually, most recycling centers will want you to separate "mixed paper" (office paper, scrap paper, etc.) from newsprint, cardboard, telephone directories, and "glossy" paper that magazines and catalogs are printed on. -RKO- 07/03/07

Answer 3

Papers with wax coatings (such as meat and some produce boxes) can not be recycled. Neither can kids construction paper and those fluorescent papers called "astro brights." All others are OK as long as they are not stained with food or grease.

Answer 4

Any clean paper that is not shiny (I think the shiny ones are waxed). Waxed papers can't be recycled because it's outrageously expensive. That's why you shouldn't buy shiny paper--it can't be recycled and it will take forever to decompose at the landfill.

Answer 5

yes all types of paper can be except for plastic kinds of paper like that laminate kind of thing that protects paper can be recycled something like that.and some people says it burn less energy to make it again.and its better then making more and more and more of the same thing then wasting it again later.

Answer 6

Here's a list of recycleable paper:
- white, colored, and glossy paper (staples OK)
- mail and envelopes (window envelopes OK)
- wrapping paper (remove ribbon and tape)
- smooth cardboard (food boxes — remove inside & outside plastic wrappers — shoe boxes, tubes from paper towel and toilet paper rolls, cardboard from product packaging)
- paper bags
- cardboard egg cartons and trays
- newspapers, magazines, and catalogs
- phone books, softcover books (paperbacks, comic books, etc.; no spiral bindings)
- corrugated cardboard (flattened boxes)

These are NOT recycleable:

- hardcover books
- napkins, paper towels, or tissues
- soiled paper cups or plates
- paper heavily soiled with food or liquid
- paper with a lot of tape and glue
- plastic- or wax-coated paper (candy wrappers, take-out containers, etc.)

Answer 7

If you live in cocke county you can currently recycle nearly all paper products. the only exceptions being Paper Towels and Toilet Paper. Paper that has been contaminated by food products is also excluded. if you have further questions PLEASE CALL
Keep Cocke County Beautiful @ [phone]

Answer 8

All clean paper nothing with foil-metal in it. Wrapping paper follows the same.

Answer 9

most paper can be recycled but always check for metel bits they could causee problems

Answer 10

all paper but soiled paper with grease or something else might not be accepted. stuff like wax paper or anything that might be foreign, like double ply stuff as in corrugated cardboard.