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EarthAnswers - Why Recycle?
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- True
- False - More paper and paperboard
packaging is recovered for recycling than all plastic,
glass, and metal combined.
- True
- True
- False - Forty-two out of the
fifty states have mills using recovered paper.
- False - Because of permanent
storage, contamination, and fiber degradation, we
could never recycle 100 percent of our paper.
- False - More paper is recovered
in the U.S. than is sent to landfills.
- True
- False - Fibers can only be
recycled five to seven times before they become
too short and "worn out" to be recycled
again.
- True
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95+ Proceedings,
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Packaging in America in the 1990s, Institute of Packaging
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Secondary Fiber Recycling, TAPPI PRESS
American Forest & Paper Association
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