But the water you and I waste by leaving the sink on, goes back to the water supply.
It is not like drywall manufacturing, where the water is tainted and should not be put back into the supply.
It is not like drywall manufacturing, where the water is tainted and should not be put back into the supply.
It's not usable for drinking water, it is usable for greywater purposes. If you've got a septic system, it'll go through that into the local ground water, if not, it'll go into the septic sewer and eventually to a treatment plant, and from there a river.
If it was originally aquifer water, you've taken (likely) high quality water from a diminishing resource and put it in the environment.
And from there it goes to the next community downstream.
So it depends on where you are.
All paper recycling does is keep paper prices low enough that these people can afford to print these things and force them on every household in a city. Remind me why I should be recycling a renewable resource again? You end up subsidizing marginal paper using businesses, who enjoy cheaper paper prices because of the efforts of millions of people, all because society thinks tree farmers should be paid less.