Recycling is processing waste into new products for reuse.

The main objective of recycling is to conserve the ecology and environment. Recycling preserves natural resources which would otherwise find use as raw materials to manufacture new products. The process of recycling leads to reduces energy usage, less pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions when compared to virgin production.

The most common materials recycled are electronics, glass, metal, paper, plastic, textiles and electronics. Paper recycling is processing waste paper scrap such as mill broke (paper trimmings and other paper scrap from the manufacture of paper), pre-consumer waste (paper discarded before sold to the customer) and post-consumer waste (old corrugated containers, magazines, newspapers, office paper and books) into new paper products.

Like all recycling, paper recycling also comes with many benefits. Paper recycling also extends to the accessories such as cartridges used to print on paper.

Environmental Benefits

The biggest advantage of paper recycling is conservation of the environment. 90 percent of all paper pulp is made from wood, and about 35 percent of the trees in the world are to produce paper. Recycling newsprint paper saves the same quantity of wood, recycling printing or copier paper saves wood at double the quantity of paper recycled. Recycling all the paper in the world would save 40 million acres (162,000 square kilometres) of forest land!

The second major environment benefit of recycling paper is reduced pollution. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that manufacturing paper using recycled pulp reduces water pollution by 35 percent and air pollution by 74 percent vis-