With all the talk about global warming, $90 per barrell oil, recycling, and going digital, why don’t newspapers get beat up for pumping out millions of tons of newsprint each day? Our family started getting serious about recycling this year, converting almost half of our “trash” into “recyclable waste” almost overnight. We have one bin for glass, one for plastic (which we fill twice per week), and one for aluminum cans. Off to the side, we have another pile of newspapers which grows each week by over a foot in height. With all the scuttlebutt around recycling, why isn’t the newspaper industry being scrutinized for pumping out tons and tons of newsprint that just fills our garages?

Sure, I can cancel my subscription and put an end to the paper madness. I logon to their website anyways first thing in the morning. That long walk to the end of my driveway in the morning is most inconvenient, especially when my laptop and wireless Internet allow me to read the same stories online from my couch. How much environment could we save by forcing the local newspapers to stop printing tons of unread paper each day?