COMBATING ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION THROUGH RESOURCE RECOVERY OF ‘WASTED RESOURCE’ - A MICRO LEVEL STUDY
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2011
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A pHpciless sociciy is u dicum conic Hue PiipcM an cs.sciUial lesourcc bui a paradoxical material
-IS not considered enviroiiincni triendiN and increase in use has contributed to global deforestation,
conlaminalion ol watei. soil and air A ll activity economic or human cun come to a halt if this
resource become absent tn the world. World consumption ol paper has gone up 400 per cent in the
last forty years for which nearly four billion trees or 35 per cent o f (he total trees cut around the
world liave been used by paper industries in all the continents I he most efficient way to conserve
any resource is to recover the resources out o f wiisie' Paper recycling refers to converting waste
paper back into usable paper products India being an agrarian economy, agio wastes (wasted
resources') also mount high and contribute then mile to .spoil the environment. An attempt was
made through a micro level nUkK to u iili/c bolh these wasted resources to produce paper - a
recovered resource , which will beiiefil txHh the societv and environment. Value addition o f such
recovered resource' was also tried. I his article delineates the procedure adopted and salient
findings o f the study