Paper Recycling.

Jennifer Ryu

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The Need for Paper Recycling

* The increase in per capita consumption averaged 1.8% per year from 1960 to 1980, 1.6% per year from 1980 to 1993, and has been projected at 0.6% per year during 1990 to 2040.

* Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills account for 95% of energy use in the

U.S. paper and allied products industry and about 12% of total manufacturing

energy use in the U.S.

Science of Paper Recycling

• 50% of paper in U.S. has been already recycled.

• One bundle of paper as huge as a person can save 15 trees.

Collect papers.

Sort them out and make them into bundles.

These bundles get dissolved into new papers.

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• Time that takes trash to dissolve.

• Paper: 2-5 months

• Milk Pack: 5 yrs

• Paper cups: 20 yrs

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Advantages. Disadvantages

• Advantages• Can be used up to five

times• Reduces air pollution• Saves up landfill than

any other materials• Newspaper and

cardboard are everywhere.

• Disadvantages• Lower quality than

original and new paper• Expensive to remove

ink from old papers• Changing value of

recycle paper contributes to its shaky economic value.

Korea’s Paper Recycle

• The use of paper in Korea has been steadily increasing.

• Korea produces 69.6% of the total paer usage in Korea, so it has to rely on import for the rest.

• 4,090 billion won is used for paying imported paper every year.

20% of the whole trash in Korea is paper.

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Paper Recycling Industry take up a large part of the whole paper industry.

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US Paper Recycle

• Over one million people are involved in recycling.

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