What about? More wasted paper ≈ more planted trees. Wood (and thus paper) is renewable resource or did I miss something? I guess you can worry about transport costs but than perhaps it'd be better to optimise where it matters — like bottled water.
Recycling paper takes a lot of energy and water use, not to mention harsh chemical bleaching. Sorry to burst your "use paper, it's recyclable" mentality. I was disappointed when someone burst mine, too.
There is a reason for the order in "reduce, reuse, recycle"...
I didn't say anything about recycling actually. I'm not really looking to discuss this much further, just please do not put words into my mouth.
Apologies, I read you wrong. Renewable resource because it's trees, not because you can recycle it. Eeek. Someone slap me.
Sure, unless they buy the wood from a third world country where corruption is a major issue and influential people can cut forests down and then sell the wood and use a percentage of that to bribe the authorities. Then the real estate people come and houses get built instead of those forests. That's what happens where I live, anyway...