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[GreenYes] AF&PA
- Subject: [GreenYes] AF&PA
- From: DavidOrr@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:43:45 EDT
On 4/2/01 9:51 AM, Christine_McCoy@afandpa.org
Christine_McCoy@afandpa.org wrote:
>In the meantime, you may want to check out
>our website for general information on paper and wood recycling.
While I don't know Ms. McCoy, nor do I have any reason to doubt her
sincerity on a personal level, I would strongly caution all subscribers
to this list that the American Forest & Paper Association is the timber
industry's mouthpiece and a major obstructive force against forest
protection efforts in this country and abroad. To the extent they
promote paper and wood recycling, it is as a defensive measure, i.e., to
be able to defend against charges that they prefer to cut down trees to
promote recycling.
If the AF&PA and its member companies cared about recycling, we would
have a lot more post-consumer waste recycling in this country. For
example, it was back in the early days of the Clinton Administration when
the white house proposed a minimum PCW content rule for the Government
Printing Office. Who shot that down? The AF&PA and some of its biggest
member companies.
So take what they tell you with a block of salt. I won't be checking
their website for any information, other than to see what sort of
self-serving propaganda the timber industry puts out on a given day or on
a given topic.
Good luck to Ms. McCoy in her job. It is a serious ethical challenge for
an environmentalist to work for the world's biggest advocate for forest
destruction.
David Orr
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