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NEWS ABOUT: paper industry

paper industry stories: 2 news summaries

Kick in the Butt: Soft Toilet Paper Battle Gets Messy

The plusher paper invariably comes from virgin wood, not recycled content

Sep 24, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The environmental campaign against soft toilet paper is heating up, as manufacturers keep pushing the fluff factor—"Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective," the Washington Post notes—and environmentalists want the industry to go all recycled. The softer rolls US... More »

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recycling • environmentalism • toilet paper • logging • environmentalists • paper industry • paper products • old growth forest • softness

(Newser) - A tax provision in the 2005 transportation bill offering credits for the use of alternative fuels has had an unintended, even disastrous, result in the paper industry: “Paper mills are adding diesel fuel to a process that requires none in order to qualify for the tax credit,"... More »

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environment • diesel • alternative fuels • tax credit • paper industry • paper mill • transportation bill • scheme

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