Debunking recycling paper (P&T segment)

thinkabout1t recently released a video on recycling. It got me thinking about an old episode of Penn and Teller BS that I had watched years ago. I haven't done sufficient research myself to know whether everything they say in the episode is really true or not, but this segment seems absolutely logical and is what caught my eye the most.
Feel free to debunk- this debunk. If your logic and research is sound, go for it! I'm putting this out there to spread what I believe is truth, and would hate to spread misinformation so I welcome video responses.
Also, sorry for the fuzzy quality.

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[Mojosbigstick]

I often agree with Penn but he's missing a point here. There may be more trees now, but the forests are all paper-crop trees - pine trees. There's much less biodiversity in them.

It's like digging up the last remaining bits of prairie and planting huge fields of wheat or potatoes there. The land would still be covered in plants wouldn't it? But the variety, the habitat, birds, animals, insects would be gone.

[miamimanni]

mhmm. I didn't think of that.

Although trees are a renewable resource. The local ecosystem is destroyed.

Good point

[toetaghaterz]

Here's an idea. Save the rainforests, make paper out of hemp like we use to before hemp was outlawed in 1937. Hemp makes better quality paper and is faster to grow than trees

[Jeffs5centk0]

Used*

Big*

[Jeffs5centk0]

@Luigi84289 dude the plants and animals that live in rainforests can be potentially uses to cure diseases and virus's , so yea it is a bug deal to try and save the rainforest

[Barthedanz]

wow he made a little paper hat, those guys are awesome.

[ielopez531]

you can also compost paper, go electronic, or print double-sided documents

[RainbowPowerRangerX]

@Mojosbigstick The expert says, before this clip starts, that the tree farms are planted on area that would not have trees otherwise. So, according to the show at least, they aren't supplanting existing ecosystems with their own, just making new ones.

[RainbowPowerRangerX]

@toetaghaterz Almost all rainforest land being cleared away today is for cattle grazing. Paper is not your enemy.

[Spacetojump]

@jemborg I believe them over you any day. I suppose you believe In global warming as well? Because, if you haven't noticed, that is bullshit as well.