Chapter 6. Paper
The production and use of paper is said to have a significant carbon footprint, with the additional negative impact that cutting down forests to create paper removes one of the earth’s means of converting CO2 back to oxygen.
Figure 1. Flowchart of the process used to make recycled paper
The idea that larger users of paper (a major output of office activity) should switch to recycled paper in order to protect the earth’s forests is, therefore, not surprising. Recycling, however, is a complex area and it is not always clear what the most appropriate approach to this issue might be.
The flowchart above provides a diagrammatic representation ...
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