Two Sides: Paper Products Are Not Major Contributor To Climate Change BY KATHI ROWZIE If you’ve been following Two Sides or other authoritative sources, you know that the paper products you use do
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not contribute in any major way to climate change. Why? Because most of the energy used to manufacture them is generated using renewable, carbon neutral biomass. But what does this really mean? The life cycle of paper, like that of any other widely manufactured and
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used product, does involve the emission of carbon – the key element in most greenhouse gases. However, with pa- per, there’s a critical difference. To put it simply, the carbon released from burning bio- mass does not contribute to climate change, while the car- bon released from fossil fuel does. Biomass, also called biogenic carbon, is carbon that is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in trees and other vegetation though photosynthesis. When that bio- mass later decays in the forest or is burned – either in forest fires or as fuel in a paper mill – its carbon returns back to the atmosphere in an endless natural loop that continuously recycles the same carbon atoms (called the “terrestrial carbon cycle”). Consequently, no new carbon is added to the environment.
On the other hand, the carbon from fossil fuels origi- nates from deposits that have been stored in the earth for tens of millions of years. When coal and oil are extracted from those deposits and burned for energy, “new” carbon from outside the terrestrial carbon cycle is added to the atmosphere. The result is a net increase in greenhouse gases. And that is what’s warming the climate. In an interesting take on the difference between the two sources of carbon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture compares them to the relationship between landlords and CONTINUED ON PAGE 36
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