Green children save 48 trees by recycling (Lincs Echo)

One of Lincoln's 'greenest' schools, Myle Cross Junior in St Giles, Lincoln, has recycled two tonnes of paper in just under a year.

And it is thanks to the school's Green Team made up of a group of 25 children from years four to six.

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WHAT A LOAD OF UNEDUCATED NONSENSE :-(

Recyclng paper does not save trees, all trees felled to make paper come from carefully managed renewable forests.

In the US there are 20% more trees than 30 years ago because of this.

In the UK our forestry has more than doubled since the second world war.

Trees are an organic renewable, sustainable resource.

Recycling paper reduces the amount of trees planted and causes a great deal of pollution in de-inking and transportation.

[SOLDIERF1]

However Recycling paper DOES use less energy than virgin papermaking, but this energy is FOSSIL FUEL DERIVED; whereas modern paper mills use the parts of the tree that cannot be used to make paper to create carbon neutral energy and many mills are self sufficient in this clean power (some even sell their excess energy to their national grid)

Recycling paper to save trees is like not eating bread to save wheat!

Use more paper and plant bigger forests I say!

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