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Q: Better to recycle old newspapers or burn them for home heating? ( No Answer,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Better to recycle old newspapers or burn them for home heating?
Category: Family and Home > Home
Asked by: greenquest-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 06 Jun 2006 11:04 PDT
Expires: 20 Jun 2006 19:06 PDT
Question ID: 735779
I have seen those contraptions that allow you to roll old newspapers
into ?logs? to burn in fireplaces.  I'm wondering which is the more
environmentally sound option for disposing of our old
newspapers--burning them in our clean wood stove, or taking them to
our recycling center?  Is the newspaper worth more as a recycled raw
material, or as a petroleum-free source of home heat?  And how do the
environmental by-products (emissions, BTU output, etc) figure into
this equation?
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Subject: Re: Better to recycle old newspapers or burn them for home heating?
From: answerfinder-ga on 07 Jun 2006 00:37 PDT
 
Dear greenquest-ga
I was unable to find any comparisons between newspaper burning at home
and recycling. However, you may find this report from Finland of
interest. It looked at municipal collection of newspapers and found
that replacing coal burning by using newspapers as fuel was the best
option in purely environmental terms, but that it was not financially
viable. It is 154 pages long.

Waste management options for discarded newspaper in the Helsinki
Metropolitan Area - Life cycle assessment report
http://www.ymparisto.fi/download.asp?contentid=34817&lan=EN

answerfinder-ga

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