[supercat]

Your garbage man friend is correct (I'm a former garbage god)except for newspaper, and cardboard. Those two types of paper are easily re-cycled and save on wood that's better put to other uses like houses, plywood, particle board products, and my favorite gunstocks.

Tree farms are capable of producing as much pulpwood as is needed. Besides, if reducing atmosphereic CO2 is desirable, growing trees, turning them into paper, and landfilling them will be an effective method of sequestering CO2.

[Tailback]

I have yet to see a decent gunstock come out of a pulpwood tree farm. But if you really want cheap pulp, grow hemp instead of hybrid cottonwoods. (that's gonna open up a can o' worms) Seriously though you are correct, there's lots of pulp tree farms here in Oregon. It must be economically easier to use recycled newspaper though, otherwise there wouldn't be a decent market for it.