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Susan, Thanks for the good information. I'm curious as to how you would view the major trend in recycling that we have seen in Oregon over the last decade. In Oregon, our large newsprint mills have converted their cleaning and deinking system to better make use of junk mail and magazines. Most Oregon curbside programs collect all grades of paper mixed together. Material recovery facilities attempt to separate out the corrugated cardboard, cereal box board, and other unbleachable paper, but the white and colored ledger, coated papers, magazines, and other compatible papers remain in with the newspaper and are sold to our paper mills as newsprint. More and more now, commercial office paper is also going the same route. The newsprint mills like office paper because it whitens their product and probably provides strength benefits too. Do you view using office paper and junk mail to make whiter newspaper to be a downgrading of the fiber? Do you think we should be providing incentives or educational programs to direct office paper to go new office paper production? How about the use of office paper to make bleached white toilet and tissue paper. A fair chunk of our office paper is recycled into bleached white toilet paper, and that use seems to well make use of the properties of office paper (i.e. uses the fact that it is bleached as well as its strength). So do you think recycling office paper into newsprint is downgrading? How about recycling office paper into bleached toilet or tissue paper? One final note to John Reindl - I don't know that I have the facts to back me up on this because I don't know the amount of recycled paper produced in Wisconsin, but we do use lots of recycled paper in making our newsprint and corrugated in Oregon, and so it is possible that our mill's recycled content rivals yours. Peter Spendelow Oregon Department of Environmental Quality --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes-unsubscribe@no.address For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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