Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, May 29, 1990, Page 5, Image 5

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Hmvt'vi'r. the magazine says
that mi existing legislation
would force ( ompanies to pro
dure unbleached receded pa
per products, although the
technology exists
The extra cost of pro( essing
used materials into recycled
products may cause "industrial
inertia," Sugarrnan said.
Hut warehouses and landfills
around the county contain
enough paper, glass and plastic
to fill the resource demands of
U S. corporations, she said.
"Supply of reusable materi
als is not the problem," Sugar
man said. "We know how to
provide collection systems, hut
processing the materials is
what industry has to do he
cause they own the plants."
The Eugene Mission, one ex
ample of a local collection s\s
tern, collects more than -tint
tons of used paper a month,
selling the paper to large col
let tion agencies, who then sell
the material to large corpora
tions, said Ron Metcalf. Eugene
Mission Organizer
After the paper is sold. Met
calf said, the Eugene Mission
has little knowledge ot how
much paper is stored m ware
houses or reused
One I’at if it Northwest corpo
ration, the Norpat Paper hum
pain in Longview. Washing
ton. jumped on increased de
mand lor rec yt led newsprint fix
retooling one of three paper
lines to manufacture Hitt per
cent post consumer waste un
bleached newsprint." said |err\
Speaks, de inking manager
Dwindling old growth re
serves the rise in wood chip
prii es. and the spotted invI
controversy led Norpai to
change its manufacturing hah
its Speaks saiii The plant will
be in operation by April, pen
he said
tsen Sandusky, ret vi ling co
ordinator for lame County's
Waste Management, wanted to
jolt the marketplace into ai tion
by requiring the county to pur
chase high-quality, recycled
paper products, preferably tin
bleached file purchasing strat
egy would stimulate demand
and convince manufacturers to
supply recycled paper, he said
"latne County needs to set its
own definitions of what a rra
srtnable standard of ret vcled
paper is." he said
Sandusky thought finding a
supplier of ret vi led paper
would be easy but found the in
dustrv to be a confusing ami
sometimes contradictory place,
he said
He found that rei vcled paper
means one of three things
postconsumer waste, a produi t
made from paper diverted from
landfills; secondary waste pa
per made from obsolete stocks
of paper or mill waste, vvhii h is
si raps of paper found around
the mill from the maiiulai till
ing prtx ess; and mill broke pa
per. made from excess wood
si raps and chips from process
on all
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kinLo's Copies is one local cop\ shop that is beysinniny; to use WO pen ent unbleached rein leil
paper. I nbleached paper has been found to be more environmentally sate because it doesn't
produce as mui h dioxin as nyular bleat bed paper does
mg oiner prooui is
Most of these prorltu ts ,ire
Wear heel, he said
Also, Sandusky said that no
i oncrete standards exist to de
termini* what percentage of
used material constitutes a re
i \ i led prodlll I
"U'e've used a lair amount of
rei vi led paper so far. fie said
"The quality was fine, but
sometimes we never knew what
kind of recycled paper it was
i mm.iii'n n i limes mm 11 in
trusting tin1 people hi1 buv it
trum
Merritt ,ilso run into prob
lems wit It uni lear labels tin re
t vi It'll paper anti said govern
ment oflii nils should i barge
i orporutions with labeling their
proilui t
"Lets get same regulation on
labeling," be said "Everyone
does not need to be a I hi k 1 ra
i v doing hours of rese.iri h to
u n.ii
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Mil* i uinpaiiv iinpurteil the pa
per Irum the Steinheiss Paper
( annpany in (iemianv
I would rather have a inn
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