Recycling - nothing but humbug?

Its not necessarily a waste. It takes years for certian products, like plastic, to disintegrate which would cause the landfills to overflow more than they are right now. It depends how one goes about doing it. A little something is better than nothing. We've gotten so selfish with things that we don't consider the consequences.

First, we have to transport whether we have trees or paper. So either one gets transported so that energy is pretty much the same. Transport from home to a center and then to the factor or transport from individual forests, sorted and then transported to a factor. Second, some products use chemicals to bleach and others use more natural bleaching processes. Usually recycled items will state their processes if they are proud of them. Like one company may use a clorox kind of bleach and another hydrogen peroxide and still another may use sunshine or something else. It comes down to studying the company you buy things from and/or reading packaging. Third, how many years does it take the average paper tree to grow before it can be cut? How long does it take to cut the tree down? How long does it take you to use and put the paper by the curb? Have you ever tried to cut down a tree? Using an axe and/or saw, long time. Using a chain saw, less time, but more petroleum products. More energy used. Lastly, the paper to paper has very little waste. Tree to paper, bark, leaves, roots, lots of a tree is wasted or has to have some other place for those items to be used. Also, if you look around the internet, you can see how to make art paper and card paper from your old paper. That way you don't have to buy cards in a store. You don't have to worry about the energy used to send the paper somewhere else. You can recycle paper at your own home. Try doing that with a tree. Magazines can be used to make beads. All these ideas are recycled crafts on the internet. Therefore, recycling paper is real. I do care. Those are my opinions/solutions to what you consider to be a dilema.