Word: newsprint
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...make more trash than yesterday's newspapers. Thus when New York's Suffolk County last week approved a bill requiring newspapers to use paper with a 40% recycled content by the end of 1996, the intent was unassailable. But there is a hitch: not enough mills are reprocessing the newsprint that readers already send to recycling centers...
...value of these individual actions is abundantly clear. Making newsprint from recycled newspapers uses half the water and energy and causes 74 percent less air pollution than making it from pulp wood. Making glass from recycled bottles reduces energy consumption by nearly half, water consumption by half, air pollution by 20 percent and mining wastes by 80 percent...
Result 1: Based on a study of the recycling bins in our entryways, unread copies of the Gazette constitute precisely 91.8 percent of recycled newsprint at Harvard...
Like abortion, environmentalism cuts across party lines. A national recycling bill is winding its way through Congress. California and Connecticut have recently passed laws requiring the use of recycled newsprint, and similar legislation has been proposed in at least a dozen other states. In New York the environment may be one of the few areas where Democrat Mario Cuomo proves vulnerable: activists consider him indifferent to the issue and specifically fault him for favoring trash incineration over recycling. Yet Cuomo too has proposed an environmental bond issue, mostly to acquire land in the Adirondacks. The $1.9 billion issue would...
...been terrific," Wolmer says. "The first week we found a lot of other garbage in the bins, but by the second week, everyone seemed to understand how to separate trash." Wolmer hopes to include newspapers; at the moment, however, most recycling plants in New York City cannot handle more newsprint. Magazines pose a different problem. In printing TIME, we cannot currently use stock that contains more than 7% recycled paper; anything more and our high-speed printers would shred the magazine to pieces. However, as recycling technology improves, we aim to increase that percentage...