How does paper impact society in a negative way?

Answer 1

paper affects the environment by destruction, the cut down millions of trees a days to make them into paper and just throw them out the next day, if people keep an cutting down so many trees and polluting by putting paper in the garbage and not the recycling bow there will be no trees left for our generation! So don't pollute! and put paper in the recycling!
Actually paper is extremely important to the environment. If we reduce the amount of paper we use, landowners will have to sell their land to developers. The developers will build malls, apartments, Golf courses on the land. The trees will be cut and not replaced.
The forest products industry plants 1.7 million trees per day, almost 3 times what is harvested. There are 12 million more acres of forestland today than there was 20 years ago. 60% of the energy comes from self generated carbon neutral sources.

Answer 2

It is not really a question of whether it pollutes the earth because paper is essentially wood and therefore degradable. Wood is (largely) harmless to the environment and thus it does not pollute the earth.

However, there is a problem with wasting paper. Obviously to make the paper, one must cut down a lot of trees. Trees as you should know, are essential to the environment in terms of creating oxygen, and of course for natural beauty. This is why there has been so much controversy about the cutting down of the rain-forests.

Answer 3

Paper is often bleached, and when you throw out paper, it's like you're throwing bleach into the earth. Bleach is poisonous, especially at the rate at which we just "throw out" paper instead of recycle it. It adds up.

Answer 4

The environmental impact of paper is significant, which has led to changes in industry and behavior at both business and personal levels. With the use of modern technology such as the printing press and the highly mechanised harvesting of wood, disposable paper has become a cheap commodity. This has led to a high level of consumption and waste

Answer 5

because paper is used from trees and if trees keep getting cut down all the trees will run out unless we replant them.

Answer 6

paper saves the environment by not wasting trees.

Answer 7

Well if you use less Paper that makes less trees being cut down which is made into paper.

Answer 8

paper is cutting down trees