[maskedoffender]

If the goal is to remove carbon from the system, then the best thing we can do is waste as much paper and throw it in the trash where it goes to a landfill and never decays back into the air.

If we recycle it we're keeping that carbon in play. But by wasting mass amounts of paper over and over again, we can remove a lot of carbon from the air. As we chop down more and more trees to make paper and bury the paper in a landfill, new trees grow up which get turned to paper which gets buried and taken out of the system.

So waste paper if you want to save the planet, because paper may kill a tree, but that tree will grow back, and the paper will sit in a landfill petrified.

[dTal]

Except that paper comes from unsustainable logging practices in the Amazon, which is an irreplaceable carbon sink that is being destroyed.

[ethagknight]

Paper mostly comes from massive tree farms that are close to mills and close to market on managed, easy to transit tracts of land close to shipping lanes. Take a look at aerials of the wooded areas surrounding Panama City, FL, miles and miles of rows of tree farms. What’s happening in the Amazon is terrible mismanagement, but it’s not the sole source of paper

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