Overstating your case? How ‘bout, not all paper mills stink, just most? And “all” those empty containers go back to China filled with our scrap paper to fuel their paper machines? Not “many of”, or “some of”?
But beside all that, the newly-revived papermill in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where my Nat’l Guard daughter attends a small state college tuition-free, thanks to us taxpayers, seems to be a Godsend.
Overstating?...do you know something I don't? We have paper mills all over the country and none smell. It depends on the papermaking process being used.
As far as China and what they are doing to the US market in 2003 various grades of scrap paper we use to make our paper ran anywhere from $120 per ton to $200 per ton, today we are paying double.
As to the containers and scape leaving our shores the majority of all scrap paper on the west coast goes to China. They are up from 07 to now 44% to 2.4 million tons. The container would go back empty and they ship the scrap almost free.
Oh, and my son is a Marine.