What are the benefits of waste paper recycling?

Reuse of waste paper to create an invisible forest This paper sorts out Ren Shengxin's sketches and seals on the head of the peace magazine. Editor's Note: Most of the paper used in China's culture and industry comes from wood. Theoretically speaking, taking the total paper consumption in China in 2002 as 35 million tons, maximizing the production and use of environmentally-friendly recycled paper with cultural and industrial waste paper as raw materials is equivalent to saving a Daxinganling in 20 months. Therefore, actively participating in "recycling waste paper" and "actively using recycled office paper" are the national policies to implement sustainable development and promote circular economy. Zhang Lei: As we all know, most office paper is made of wood. What should I do after use? What we want to tell you is, don't throw it away, collect it and recycle the waste paper. Don't underestimate a piece of waste paper, every little makes a mickle, and its ecological, social and economic benefits are considerable. We learned from Beijing No.7 Paper Factory that one ton of recycled office paper can be produced from 1.25 tons of cultural waste paper. According to international standards, it can save 4 cubic meters of wood, water 100 cubic meters, electricity 600 kWh, coal 1.2 tons, 300 kilograms of chemical raw materials, waste residue treatment fund 150 yuan, waste residue landfill land, avoid the pollution of landfill waste residue to surrounding groundwater, and produce 3 cubic yards of solid waste and 60 pounds of industrial waste gas. According to China's standards, it will save more. Based on an annual output of 50,000 tons of recycled paper, the factory can save 5 million cubic meters of water and 200,000 cubic meters of wood. It takes many years for a big tree to grow, but it only takes a few minutes to cut it down! We should cherish every forest resource and make our environment full of green. There are many successful examples of "waste paper recycling" in Wang Guangyuan: under the pressure of ecological deterioration, countries are taking measures to protect forest resources. 1993, US President Bill Clinton issued an executive order requiring governments at all levels to use 80% recycled office paper and incorporate this work into government procurement. By 1999, the recycled office paper used by American federal agencies has reached 98% of the total office paper. California has enacted the Waste Paper Utilization Act for recycling and using recycled paper. At present, 13 states in the United States have enacted similar laws. Germany requires the paper industry to use waste paper as raw material, and since June 2000, 65438+1 October1,it has been 60%. Tokyo, Japan promotes the benefits of recycling waste paper by entertaining residents to watch movies about recycling waste paper for free. Officials mobilized employees from all walks of life and primary and secondary school students to voluntarily recycle waste paper and repackage garbage. In Osaka, Japan, when recycling waste paper, a lottery ticket is given every 10 kg, and if you win the lottery ticket, you will get a generous reward. Following the promulgation of 1992 Circular Economy Law, Japan revised the Circular Society Law in 2000 and formulated a series of implementation regulations after continuous improvement. France, Belgium and other countries also promulgated laws to develop circular economy in the 1990s, including the utilization of waste paper resources. We must follow the ecological law of paper-making resources allocation, reduce paper-making wood, promote the recycling of waste paper and protect our beautiful "green home" with the principle of "comprehensive, coordinated, recycling and regeneration". Improving the ecology and turning waste paper into resources is an important means to ensure the evergreen home. The significance of waste paper regeneration lies in "turning waste into treasure". In 2003, the recovery rate of waste paper in China was 30.6%, and the utilization rate of waste paper reached 49. 1%, but the potential is still great. Wang Rusong: At present, the situation of waste paper for cultural office and industrial packaging in China is disorderly collection, mixed recycling, high grade and low utilization, which is the biggest waste of resources. In order to maximize the reuse of waste paper resources, it is necessary to classify and summarize all kinds of waste paper and reuse it according to quality. Mixing and recycling waste paper such as copy paper, newsprint and wrapping paper can only be high-grade and low-use, and it is impossible to produce high-quality recycled copy paper. Waste paper recycling should be collected orderly, classified by quality, reproduced and sold. Waste paper recycling should be environmentally friendly, mainly including orderly loading and unloading and closed transportation. In this way, a virtuous circle network of production, consumption, circulation and reduction will be gradually formed, and finally a new eco-industrial network of enterprises and society will be formed. As early as several decades ago, developed countries classified papers according to their quality characteristics. According to figures, American waste paper is "American garbage" and European waste paper is "European garbage". At present, there are more than 60 kinds of waste paper classification in the world, but the classification standard of waste paper in China has not yet been formulated, so it is impossible to enter the orderly and scientific field of waste paper recycling and circulation. In order to achieve high efficiency and high quality of waste paper recycling and reduce environmental pollution and waste of resources, it is necessary to introduce practical standards, policies and regulations for scientific classification of waste paper recycling as soon as possible, and have an internationally recognized number of "middle wastes", paving the way for China to enter the international waste paper market as soon as possible. Building an "invisible forest" depends on "me". Chen Hui: 200 1 The Beijing Municipal Government issued a notice on promoting the use of recycled office paper as soon as the recycled office paper came out of the No.7 Factory of Beijing Paper Mill, and at one time Beijing set off a craze for promoting the use of recycled office paper. Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary, Mayor and other leaders took the lead in using "recycled paper" business cards; Central state organs such as the Central Organization Department, the State Forestry Administration and the State Environmental Protection Administration, as well as some publishing houses, universities, middle schools and primary schools are actively using recycled office paper. Beijing district and county governments, functional bureaus, Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, Beijing TV Station, etc. have all switched to recycled paper for office work. Xuanwu District and other government departments promote the use of recycled copy paper, printing paper, stationery, notebooks, etc. by means of "government procurement". Many hotels such as Yizhuang Development Zone and Beijing Hotel, affiliated schools such as Normal University, Geological University and Jiaotong University, and more than 30 shopping malls such as Beijing Department Store are promoting the use of recycled office paper products in various forms. What is particularly touching is that Xiaoyou Primary School in Xicheng District, Beijing heard that there was recycled paper, and returned the original pulp paper exercise books that had been ordered and bought 6,000 recycled paper exercise books. As volunteers to build an "invisible forest", the New Dong 'an Market Youth League Committee, Beijing Taize Fenghua Forestry Development Company and other units have taken the lead in collecting waste copy paper, office paper and newspapers in recent years. They also often take to the streets to distribute publicity materials on recycling waste paper to the masses. At the national book ordering meeting in 2000, many publishing houses, such as People's Liberation Army Publishing House 10, indicated that they would promote the use of recycled paper when publishing books, and issued an initiative of "using recycled paper to produce environmental protection books" to the national publishing community. At that time, Tongxin Publishing House and Beijing Global Village Environmental and Cultural Center took the lead in printing and publishing the book "Children's Environmental Code of Conduct" with recycled paper, which was distributed to more than 900 primary schools in Beijing. More than 50 media and websites discussed its significance and how to promote it. According to statistics, the total number of books, periodicals and newspapers printed in China every year is more than 654.38+00 billion, equivalent to more than 2 million tons of paper, accounting for about 654.38+0/654.38+00 of the national paper output.