We need to ask the Sprint Corporation why they still use virgin paper for their cellular telephone bills. Their bills are recyclable, but not from recycled paper. This is very misleading. They claim recycled paper would further the costs to customers but it is, in fact, not true. First, Sprint already uses recycled paper for its long-distance phone bills. Second, customers will not mind or even notice the extra penny or two. Furthermore, Sprint is passing on these costs because the company itself refuses to incur them. Each year, 71.8 million tons (or 40 percent) of municipal solid waste is paper. Recycled paper uses a fraction of the energy that virgin paper production uses. Plus, recycling one ton of paper saves at least 24 trees. Sprint needs to stop dropping pins and start picking up some common sense.
