Recycling is good for the environment.

By redirecting waste to serve as raw materials for industry, recycling provides a number of important benefits:

•  Reducing pollution and conserving  natural resources.
• Saving energy by reducing the need to extract and process "virgin" raw materials to manufacture new products.
• Reducing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
• Stimulating the development of greener technologies.
• Avoiding the cost of waste disposal in landfills and incinerators.

 Every ton of paper recycled saves up to 17 trees (Source:  Planet Pals)
 Recycled paper requires 50 percent less energy, and up to 75 per cent less water than making it from virgin fiber.