Climate--G5

=Cutting our Carbon Foot Print=

Saving Trees with Recycled Paper
Mike E. Sean L. Britta M. Vitaliy M. Mr.Kushner | Period 3 =Topic= //**If the 1139 students in the Upper Merion Area School High School use only recycled paper for an entire school year then x lbs of CO2 will be converted to oxygen, and thus not enter the atmosphere or contribute to global warming.** //

=Research Summary=

Using recycled paper helps out the environment in more ways than just taking CO2 out of the atmosphere. Since our project is about reducing CO2 that is our main topic. By using recycled paper it causes a domino effect (a good domino effect). By using less "new" paper and making paper out of used paper it reduces the amount of trees needed to be cut down. Because trees arent getting cut down the trees still adsorb CO2 and give off oxygen. This helps clean up the atmosphere of too much CO2 and makes it cleaner.

While using recycled paper helps the atmosphere it also saves about 350 pounds of limestone and 275 pounds of sulfur for every ton of paper recycled because these chemicals are needed to make "new" paper. Recycling one ton of paper also saves 60,000 liters of water and 225 KW hours of electricity is saved also. Because we are only doing the project on reducing CO2, recycling paper also helps out many other issues. =Calculation Table=
 * Other Effects (not related to Co2 reduction)**
 * Calculations:**

|| 50% Recycled || || .2 ounces || .2 ounces || || 6,748,575 average pieces per year not used || 3,392,287 pieces per year not used || || 31.54$(Fascopy company) per case not bought || 28.17$(Fascopy) per case not bought || || 75 chords saved || 37.5 chords not used for paper || || 3750 trees saved || 1875 trees saved || || 180000 pounds of CO2 absorbed from trees yearly
 * || 100% recycled
 * Weight of paper
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">School Paper purchase
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Price of paper (optional)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Chords of Wood saved
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Trees saved
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">CO2 filtration

|| <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">90,000 pounds of CO2 is absorbed from trees(taken out of the air.) yearly

|| 6,748,575 paper used each year/90,000 pieces of paper in a chord=75 chords used for the paper consumption of the school for one year 75 chords X 50 =3750 trees used for 75 chords of wood 48 pounds of CO2 abosrbed x 3750 trees saved=180,000 pounds of carbon left in atmosphere Divide everything by 2 for 50% efficiency.

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 * Final Result:**

CO2 Filtration:Regular Paper: 200,000 pounds of CO2 not released into the air.50% Recycled Paper: 90,000 pounds of CO2 not released into the air.If Upper Merion buys 50% Recycled paper, then 45% of CO2 is taken from our atmosphere.

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