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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by adrr on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:42PM (#14186843)
Think of all the carbon that is sequestered because of landfills. Makes you think twice when recycling paper products.
Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by woliveirajr on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:09PM (#14187095)
This. Recycling is important, and the net value must be properly calculated (how much you spend producing paper, recycled paper, and which one ends consuming more CO2, for a specific area, since the impact isn't the same everywhere).

But sometimes producing new paper must be beneficial.

Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by adrr on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:25PM (#14187257)
There was interesting segment on NPR discussing paper recycling. Most of our paper comes from tree farms and because of the lack of demand of paper these tree farms are converting to farming other crops which are lot less environmentally and wildlife friendly.
Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by ntsplnkv2 on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:10PM (#14188331)
This is interesting, to someone not well informed in this, how do landfills sequester carbon?
Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by adrr on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:30PM (#14188495)
Burying paper or other organic items. In a sense your recreating the fossil fuel cycle.