[I_Love_My_Husband]

I agree with you. I'm all for recycled paper. Nothing wrong with it.

[Dimensio]

But...but aren't we conservatives supposed to endorse wasteful methods whenever and wherever possible? I thought that we wanted to trash the earth on principle, because Jesus is coming back or something. That's what the liberals say, and they wouldn't lie just to make us look bad, would they?

[Comus]

Paper machines are wonderful places to grow microbial lifeforms.(Warm and wet.) If recycled pulp is used, it requires the use of some of the most poisonous substances known to man, in large quantities, to keep microbial comtamination managable. Papermaking with recycle pulp is much more chemically intense than with virgin pulp. De-inking also requires chemicals, end result, all that isothiazolin, glutaraldehyde, and quaternary amine winds up in the environment. I know, I sell millions of dollars of biocides a year. I love when a mill decides to use recycle pulp.