Word: haulers
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Paper, especially newspaper, is the biggest component of landfills -- about 40%. Despite being the most widely recycled material, newsprint is not at all easy to process or market. "Often we can't give the stuff away," says James Harvey, owner of E.L. Harvey & Sons, Inc., a Westboro, Massachusetts, hauler. Facilities to remove ink from newsprint -- a necessary step before it can be pulped to make new paper -- are enormously expensive. To justify the investment, recyclers need the sort of arrangement just announced between the city of Houston and Champion Recycling Corp. In return for building an $85 million de-inking...
...buying recycled. Unless consumers express a purchasing preference for products made from recycled paper, backlogs of post-consumer paper will pile up in dealers' yards. Because demand for products made from recycled newspaper hasn't caught up with the supply, Harvard's Facilities Maintenance must pay its waste paper hauler $35 per ton to take newspaper...