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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by maxerickson on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:37PM (#24715468)
Trees (grown for wood fiber) pretty much aren't irrigated. I'm sure there's exceptions, but not on a significant amount of land used for fiber production.
Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by CyanBird on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:26AM (#24719994)
My experience with this comes mainly from Uruguay, Argentinian and specifically Chilean pine and eucalyptus forests used to make wood pulp, which are causing quite serious issues with water management, less so in Uruguay as it is a wetter country, but south of Chile has seen quite the protests over this issue as some of these specific type of trees (Eucalyptus) simply drain the land too much as they evolved for a different environment