why is recyling killing the pulp and paper industry?

Question

10 paper mills with in 500 miles almost 10000 workers laid off due to low sales of pulp and paper i think its due to the fact you can buy recycled paper at 1/4 the price what do you think?
RECYCLED TOILET PAPER NOW THERE IS A THOUGHT TO PONDER

Answer 1

What is your source please? I was under the impression that the only places that can make paper, whether recycled or not is paper mills. There is a paper mill in Snowflake AZ that is completely re-tooled to make paper out of recycled paper. I have been there. I have also been to most of the paper mills in the western states and they all recycle to make paper. I think that the problem that closed down some paper mills was the lack of raw materials and the increased efficiency of making paper from paper instead of wood. The cellulose breakdown has already occurred with the first making of paper, so you don't need as much processing to turn it in to paper the second time. The unions had a lot to do with making the old mills unproductive too. I blame them as much as I blame the environmental stupidity that destroyed so many jobs.

I was part of the mass exodus from Oregon in 1990 when hundreds of thousands of workers in the wood products industry lost their jobs. I lived it.

Does recycled toilet paper have little chunks of peanuts and corn in it?

Answer 2

I think the overall pulp and paper business is as good as the rest of the economy. It usually is.

As far as the effect of recycled paper, practically all tissue, napkins and toilet paper are now made of recycled paper. The trees that used to be cut for that purpose no longer are so I guess the people who used to cut for that purpose are no longer cutting for that purpose. But the mills that make those kinds of paper products still are doing well. Just a different raw material.

Paper products like boxes, newpapers and 12-packs have always used recycled paper so there is no change there.

Answer 3

Seventh Generation makes toilet paper made out of 100% recycled paper. Link below. It is not made from recycled toilet paper--that would be gross.

So what if paper mills are having difficulty in staying in business due to low sales of pulp? The only thing that stays the same is change. Smart people are able to adapt to change--they have to to survive. Businesspeople/industries have to roll with the punches as well.

Lots of businesses/workers have had to find other ways of making revenue over the years as the world changes. For example, buggy/wagon/horse-drawn carriage makers were probably pretty upset when the automobile came out. Either they began to make automobiles instead, or they went out of business because they weren't able to adapt.

The paper mill workers will be all right. Maybe they'll get jobs in recycling plants, CFL lightbulb-making plants, who knows?

Answer 4

I agree with Joseph P. I am in the paper products industry. But what he didn't mention is that about 55% of the recycled paper collected in the US is exported, mainly to China, but also Central America and Malaysia

Answer 5

We can't keep cutting down trees to make paper. Trees are a vital part to clean air. Recycling is the way to go, because in time planet Earth could become the dump of the Solar System.

Answer 6

No, recycling does not killing the pulp and paper industry. It is helpful for paper industry. Mixing fiber is better than 100% virgin fiber for making good paper.

Answer 7

Newspapers surely. they're typically from managed forests. Haiti and different international places, specifically in Asia, have an insatiable urge for food for charcoal. Deforestation leads to land erosion, landslides.

Answer 8

Thats something to think about alright

Answer 9

hogwash.