[fogarty]

If someone is willing to buy recycled paper products from IP, then I suspect the market is taking care of the costs. New York City is beside the point. IP recycles paper, and makes money producing products made with recycled paper. Whether or not NYC has a system which lets the freemarket work is another issue. The fact is, recycling can work with certain products, in a free market, and IP has proven that.

[Pukka Puck]

"IP recycles paper, and makes money producing products made with recycled paper."

And the rest of us subsidize the cost of the waste paper provided to IP, just so they can make a profit.

Net the entire process, it cost more money and is harder on the environment to recycle paper than to make it from scratch.