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...have managed to reduce the number of spoiled or unusable copies that come off the presses, another savings of several thousand tons. Some magazines are being recycled to make newsprint and other grades of paper; we are also exploring ways to enable readers to recycle more magazines at the local level. In addition, we are experimenting with inks based on soybeans rather than...
...paper cup today, you'll probably feel guilty. Environmental groups at Harvard have done their best to make students aware of the ecological consequences of college life. Plastic plates are being phased out in the houses. Newsprint, aluminum cans and colored paper are being collected and recycled. Campus efforts are part of a national effort to save the environment...
...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...
...York State illustrates the predicament. Each year New Yorkers turn in 490,000 tons of newsprint for recycling (out of 1.4 million tons they purchase). Yet the area's newspapers use only 130,000 tons of recycled material yearly. Since the entire Northeast has just one recycling plant, much of the waste paper is shipped abroad for re-use. Suffolk County legislator Maxine Postal, who sponsored the tougher bill, claims that its whole point is to entice paper companies to add de-inking facilities (cost: $40 million to $80 million each) or to build new recycling plants (at $450 million...
...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...