Trash-laden Nations Make for Paper Recycling Celebrations
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According to a report on May 10 by a satirically writing supposed investor known as Dayne Gevins contributing to the legitimate publication Seeking Alpha of the U.K., he oddly quite immediately noted an importance in investing in trash... as long as we can recycle it! Why?became internal (eternal) investors. According to the investor by day and the comedian by night, we are long past the point of no return.
We're a trash-laden nation. The U.S is said to account for one-third of the world's waste. Statistics vary. Some say we generate 4.6 pounds per person in trash per day. Others credit us with generating one ton of trash per person per year that ends up in landfills. The highest estimate is based on data from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). A consolidation of the data provided from landfills estimated 293 million tons of waste went to landfills in 2013. And then there's just some other little important things... like giving people clean air to breathe. But are there any positives? The cynical and dreary author deliberately aims for dark satire and does not name many... besides the paper recycling industry. He noted the now popular anddeful fact held by the recycled corrugated processors that we are about to reach technology that will allow us to recover 90% clean and reusable pulp for boxes.
The author had started concludeding by noting that we had "blown the plastic" of the water but then said... as paper recycling experts know and are proud of... that sadly (or good for the forest related industries making bio products and packaging) plastic can't be blown out of the water. Not when there's already a size of plastic trash in the ocean twice the size of Texas disturbing fish and other natural life that we can do nothing about. Yet paper is organic. Paper biodegrades. And because of that the author ultimately argues that returning to a society where we use more paper and less plastic might not just "be such a bad idea".
