{"id":335327,"date":"2010-02-18T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/02\/18\/does-pcw-paper-really-save-energy-its-worth-asking-the-question\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:27:24","slug":"does-pcw-paper-really-save-energy-it%e2%80%99s-worth-asking-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335327","title":{"rendered":"Does PCW Paper Really Save Energy? It\u2019s Worth Asking the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/02\/recycle-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1746\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/02\/recycle-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>My last post on <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/02\/13\/questioning-conventional-wisdom-on-pcw-recycled-paper\/#comments\">questioning conventional wisdom on recycled paper<\/a> generated some terrific comments. After all, when you look more deeply into some of these issues, they aren&#8217;t all they are cracked up to be. Is possible that post-consumer waste (PCW) paper isn&#8217;t as green as we think it is? The question was worth asking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One of the people commenting on the post made this interesting observation: &#8220;Post-consumer wastes do consume more energy to recycle than mill-broke or pre-consumer, but if the energy required to reacquire it all is less than producing new paper from trees, then I believe it is still a worthy quest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That is a question worth asking, and it generates yet another question. How <em>does <\/em>the energy to create PCW paper compare to that used to create paper from virgin paper? I did some digging and tried to find out. Here are some of the stats I uncovered:  <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/02\/18\/does-pcw-paper-really-save-energy-its-worth-asking-the-question\/#more-1750\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~4\/N34XZO3sLnQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post on questioning conventional wisdom on recycled paper generated some terrific comments. After all, when you look more deeply into some of these issues, they aren&#8217;t all they are cracked up to be. Is possible that post-consumer waste (PCW) paper isn&#8217;t as green as we think it is? The question was worth asking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}