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@blue quinn - i'm well aware of the paper recycling argument. my old man worked in the paper trade for years and used to be a staunch opponent of recycled paper for the reasons you stated and more.
however, from a biodiversity/natural habitat point of view, those forests you refer to are plantations just like any other homogenous crop and as such support a vastly reduced range and amount of life. yes there are more trees but at the expense of the low-density, high diversity natural forest/scrub/whatever that was dug up to plant them.
also, i'm pretty sure that planting trees isn't the answer to C02 reduction. isn't the vast majority of C02 absorbed by plant life done by oceanic phytoplankton?
just saying like.
i'd never really considered the glass thing before.