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Article #1757Re: Industry On Track to Exceed 1995 Goal of 40 Percent Paper Recovery
From: Al Stangenberger
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 16:40
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 16:40
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In article <29480@dog.ee.lbl.gov> b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman) writes: > >Also, my impression is that the 40% number includes some pre-consumer >waste paper, so is not strictly comparable to "recycling rates" >as generally understood by consumers of materials. There is a lot of pre-consumer waste within a paper mill. Ends of rolls, test samples, trimmings from cutting paper to final size, etc. This is all nice clean feedstock (no ink, and some even without sizing). I toured a paper mill recently, and our guide told us that they had been recycling paper for years (they have to get rid of it somehow!). -- Al Stangenberger Dept. of Forestry & Resource Mgt. forags@violet.berkeley.edu 145 Mulford Hall - Univ. of Calif. uucp: ucbvax!ucbviolet!forags Berkeley, CA 94720 BITNET: FORAGS AT UCBVIOLE (510) 642-4424 FAX: (510) 643-5438
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