Is it better to recycle or compost newspaper, paper, and cardboard?

It is definetly better to recycle. Once in that recycling bin, companies can reuse them to reprint labels and produce more paper and notebooks, saving millions of trees, whereas composting them means that companies need to cut down more trees to create that paper, and while the compost will feed the new trees being planted, they wont grow a substantial length for a while, meaning that even MORE trees will need to be cut down.

Depends on the paper, the New York Times makes excellent compost since it's 90% crap already. Leave the recycling up to the folks in business.

my husband and I have done all we can to eliminate junk mail, but we have the sunday paper delivered for the coupons. We like to save our unused newspapers nad donate them to the local animal shelter. they use them in the kitty litter boxes, birthing areas, and in crates for "drip" liners. they can also be shredded, as another person posted, to be used instead of pine or cedar chips, in small rodent cages.

i find its better to do a bit of both, you cant put too many greens in a compost bin without adding rowns, ie cardboard and paper, but like someone else answered to you, it does matt, so be sparing i have relatives that collect newspapers for me as i use them for the family guinee pigs to line the hutch, sometimes the waste goes in my compost bin but mostly in the councils composting bin, i always get too many papers so have to put them in my black recycling bin as well, so i guess i do a bit of both

I think that it would be better to compost your paper products if you are a gardener. There is no "man-made" energy required to do this, just mother nature. If you recycle, then energy is used to process the paper products. Recycling does save trees, but for the most part, major logging companies are replanting trees.

you can try to get it from this site - http://www.exchange4green.com you may be able to get things you want by exchanging or receiving things for free. this way is greener and also saves money and resources