PAPER: Why There is No Shortage

One shortage is over, anyway: paper. The U.S. can stop saving its old newspapers and magazines. U.S. papermakers last week were looking not for raw materials but for business. Some of them angrily protested that there never had been any paper shortage at all.

Paperboard Started It. All this sounded sillier to the paper-saving citizens than it actually was. Fact is, paper leads a double life. First it appears as newsprint or book and magazine paper, writing paper or strong kraft wrapping paper, all of which are made primarily out of virgin wood...

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