ARAD, ROMANIA, 14 APRIL, 2024: Bunch Of Paper Collected For Recycling. Editorial Photo

Cardboard boxes and paper nets collected in a small trailer with wire netting for recycling. The recycling of paper is the process by which waste paper is turned into new paper products. It has a number of important benefits: It saves waste paper from occupying homes of people and producing methane as it breaks down. Because paper fibre contains carbon (originally absorbed by the tree from which it was produced), recycling keeps the carbon locked up for longer and out of the atmosphere. Industrialized paper making has an effect on the environment both upstream (where raw materials are acquired and processed) and downstream (waste-disposal impacts). 40% of paper pulp is created from wood (in most modern mills only 9–16% of pulp is made from pulp logs the rest comes from waste wood that was traditionally burnt). Paper production accounts for about 35% of felled trees. Recycling one ton of newsprint saves about 1 ton of wood while recycling 1 ton of printing or copier paper saves slightly more than 2 tons of wood.