It was November 5, 1991 when continues rain flooded Ormoc, a city of Leyte located in the eastern Visayan region of the Philippines. The flood claimed 4,875 lives excluding the bodies that were found after the official count was proclaimed. The number one cause was the drastic cutting of the trees to make way to the sugar cane plantation. There was also illegal logging and some trees were used for paper.
Trees are being cut everyday to make paper. I know we couldn’t avoid not having paper but can’t we minimize it? Don’t you know that a ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees? It bothered me when I woke up this morning and saw a bunch of paper ads. We always get that every Sunday with the morning paper. Papa always keeps it and drops it at the recycled bin at our church but there are a lot of people that just mix the paper with their other trash that made it even harder to recycle. I also find those paper ads very useless. Everyone else could go to the store’s website and view what the ad for that week without having to deal with having paper. A lot of companies are doing well with doing things paperless and I hope in the future we will eliminate having paper ads completely. That would make a huge difference and lesser trees being cut.
2.28.2010
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Yes I agree it does use a lot of trees but I would nto be able to coupon as well if I had to go to all the different store website. we love to recycle the papers when Im done at the lyons club. We wait till we get a couple big bags full of them and take them all together. Gosh it sure take up to much room to just put them in the regular trash.
Vick, Ryan goes to their website because they have exactly the same coupons and ads online. Those coupon books I like, but what I meant are those JC Penny ones, Kohl's or even Target. I think they are useless.
But friend, there is a huge difference with how papers are being used and produced here in the US. They seem to have a lot here, that's because of the recycling and we are benefiting from it kay barato ra man paliton ang mga papers diri. Also, papers that are made out of trees here don't go to waste. At least, to what I've known, because they have the replanting here. Kada logging, pulihan man dayon ang gitumba so murag di ra mahurot ang tanom. Di pareho sa pinas nga wa jud pakabana, illegal logging is flooding unya wa care ang gobyerno.
BTW, sa klase nimo ni nga write-up? Ga-binisaya man ko diri oi! :D
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