What happens to recycled newspaper?
Newspaper is torn apart, wetted, beaten and cleaned. The result is an immediate separation of fibers that are cleaned once more and laid on a paper machine. The collected fibers are layered 7 or 8 times, given a clay coating for whiteness and printability and are transformed into jumbo rolls of paper that are eventually cut, folded and glued into product boxes. Recycling one four-foot stack of newsprint save one 17 foot pine tree. Recycling one ton of newsprint saves 96 gallons of gas. (Garbage Times) Drip, Drip, Drip At any one time, only about .005% of the total water supply is actually moving through the hydrologic cycle (the process of how water moves from clouds, through liquid or ice and back). This cycle uses more energy in one day than human kind has generated throughout history. A drop of water spends about nine days passing through the air; once it falls as precipitation, it may remain in a glacier for 40 years, in a lake for 100 years, or in the ground from 200 to 10,000 yea
