[GreenYes] Re: Purchasing specifications - environmentally benign pressure sensitive adhesives

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@no.address>]

Hi John/List:

Gosh, hard to believe we don't have a handle on the stickie problem yet. I 
wrote about it over 10 years ago when I was with the Recycling Council of 
BC. AT that time there was a US organization called "Inter-Association 
Council for Printing and Publishing Paper Recycling", formed 1989 to deal 
with it. The Magazine Publishers of America did a report on stickies. 
Similar efforts to bring "stakeholders" together happened in Canada.  You 
might Google these associations.

Purchasing policies are a pressure tool -- but it's nice to know the state 
of industry readiness. Problem with adhesives is they are buried in the 
supply chain.


H.



At 11:56 AM 2/27/2006, Reindl, John wrote:
>Does anyone know of any local or state purchasing specifications for the 
>use of environmentally benign pressure sensitive adhesives?
>
>Last week, a speaker at the Wisconsin Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on 
>Waste Materials and Recovery said that the three biggest problems facing 
>the paper recycling industry are stickies, stickies and stickies.
>
>Besides the work of the Task Force, the Wisconsin Council on Recycling is 
>also working to reduce the use of pressure sensitive adhesives that are 
>not compatible with recycling.
>
>Thanks much,
>
>John Reindl
>Dane County, WI
>


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