Resource Conservation Topic: Focus on 14 million tons of waste paper

China is a country with a shortage of resources. While people are crying out that resource shortages have become a bottleneck for China’s socio-economic development, we have to face up to the fact that 14 million tons of waste paper and a large amount of waste plastics are not recycled.

According to experts, recycling 1 ton of waste paper can produce 0.8 tons of good paper, can cut down 17 large trees, save 3 cubic meters of landfill space, can also save more than half of papermaking energy, reduce water pollution by 35% . If 14 million tons of waste paper can be recycled every year, 11.2 million tons of good paper can be produced, 238 million large trees can be cut down, and 42 million cubic meters of landfill space can be saved. If more than 5 million tons of scrap steel, more than 200,000 tons of non-ferrous metals, a large amount of waste plastics, and waste glass can be recycled every year, how much resources can be saved and how much pollution can be reduced?

The key to vigorously advocating the conservation and use of renewable resources and transforming unreasonable economic growth methods is to attach great importance to and implement them earnestly. Wang Mengkui, director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, believes that China is a country with relatively low per capita resources. The increase in population has led to a decrease in per capita resources, and the rapid economic growth has increased resource pressures. The policy of alleviating the pressure on resources is to open-source and reduce expenditures, and to make savings a priority.