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...seized by Serbian troops. U.N. officials have allowed the thefts to take place. Heavily armed Serbian forces surrounding Sarajevo airport skim a large share of every relief shipment as a form of safe-passage payment, carefully selecting all the meat, telephone gear, fire- fighting equipment as well as the newsprint being donated for an independent paper...
...this for a benefit/cost analysis of the recycling bill? Quayle owns $350,000 of stock in family controlled Central Newspapers, a conglomerate that owns seven newspapers, two paper mills and a plant devoted to producing virgin newsprint and that reportedly belongs to the same industry organizations that lobbied against the EPA proposal...
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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...
...creates productive economic activity wherever possible. In large measure, the present disequilibrium in recycling is the result of policies that work at cross-purposes with those goals and with one another. Environmentalists argue -- correctly -- that recycled materials suffer in the marketplace against virgin materials because of government subsidies. Newsprint producers, for instance, are indirectly subsidized through public-area logging and logging access roads. The depletion allowance for petroleum subsidizes producers of oil-based plastics. "If these costs are taken into consideration," contends Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, "recycling looks economically a lot more competitive...