The Environmental Importance of Office Paper Recycling -- Papers Envir

Office Paper RecyclingI. IntroductionEnvironmental science is concerned with the global impact of human application on the planet. Indeed, at the dawn of this new century, close to 25 percent of the earths usable water is contaminated. In addition, during the last hundred years, we give change magnitude the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by burning fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum and in so doing we have increased the amount of gases in the atmosphere. The result is that to a greater extent heat is trapped in the system, increasing the global temperature by 1 C (about 1.8 F). Because the earth is a closed system, these issues are of major concern to environmentalists. As the Gaia Hypothesis states it, we are sustained by a single living system, meaning that we rely on it for our survival, in which all the parts are interconnected and everything we do affects it globally. For instance, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, the temperature increase s, affecting precipitation, the rain becomes acid, which in looseness affect our food production and our fresh water supply, ultimately it affects all the living system on the planet. Basically, in such a system thither is no away in throwing away, hence, over the last decade people and companies started being aware of it and therefore acknowledged the need to recycle.II.RecyclingRecycling refers to aggregation and reprocessing resources into new products. The resources on earth are not all renewable, and recycling means that we could create systems where wastes become resources again, which is called closed-loop recycling.Recycling paper involves removing its ink, glue, and coating and reconverting it to pulp that is press again into new paper.... ... that only SIS and the Physical Plant department use some and that it is not mandatory. Apparently, increasing the demand for recycled paper would spare a lot of energy in terms of bleaching paper with chemicals over and over aga in. The point is that A.U. s effort is definitely a step toward a more self-sustained system, but as long as it rely on outside providers to bring and collect the paper, the loop is not 100 percent closed, nor efficient. BibliographyConsevatree Greenline. open at http//conservatree.comEnvironmental Protection Agency. Available at http//www.epa.govMiller, Tyler G. Jr. Living in the Environment, (Pacific Grove, CA Brooks/Cole publishing company, 2000). Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, (1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation) issue Recycling Coalition. Available at www.recycle.net/index.html