As an aside, if most paper is made from pulp-wood grown specifically for that purpose, and growing trees pull carbon out of the air as a building block for their growth (which carbon then ends up in the paper), wouldn't that mean that burying waste paper in landfills is carbon sequestration?

Save the planet, stop recycling paper and send it to the dump!"
Jerub-Baal | Homepage | 04.23.07 - 4:14 pm | #

Hate to tell you this -- they broke up.
Ged | 04.23.07 - 6:12 pm | #

Good point, JB.
Ged - this is why I should not be trusted on matters of pop culture! (I stand by the rest of it.)
Kobayashi Maru | Homepage | 04.23.07 - 10:39 pm | #