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Article #592Re: Anti-REcycling Scam In Progress !
From: Roger Kluck
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00
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"Edward M. Wright" <emw@teleport.com> wrote: > >Just thought you might find this as outrageous as I did. A catalog >has some photo pages from it advertising imitation recycled paper. >Can you believe it? To quote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >"If you or your business desire the understated look of recycled stock, >these sheets will provide you the image without the high cost." > >Not an ounce of recycled content!!! >Perhaps the environmental movement has come full cycle: creating the >image of looking "environmentally correct" without investing in the >environment. Trees for image. I hope not. > >Call and express your feelings that such a product could >really have been created!!!!. >They are 20th Century Plastics, at 800-767-0777. >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Bless these folks with the understated elegance of USENET reaction. > >Ed I suspect this is flame bait. It has a tag for misc.test, which means if you respond to it, it will be filed in every test group on the net. They will respond by sending you receipts. I dropped a one liner and got about 30 receipts. It's an annoying type of practical joke. Ignore him. (Or think of something more clever. envirolaw@accessone.com Visit Roger's Environmental Resource Page http://www.accessone.com/~envirolaw
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: fd3e2,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3e2,public X-Google-Thread: 1128d6,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid1128d6,public X-Google-Thread: 10a18d,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid10a18d,public From: envirolaw@accessone.com (Roger Kluck) Subject: Re: Anti-REcycling Scam In Progress ! Date: 1996/01/29 Message-ID: <310a98b3.11555451@news> X-Deja-AN: 137042740 references: <4dp8e8$qf6@maureen.teleport.com> organization: AccessOne reply-to: envirolaw@accessone.com newsgroups: or.general,pdx.general,ca.general,wash.general