Re: WIRED ARTICLE ON JULIAN SIMON by ED REGIS
Ray Peck (rpeck@PureAtria.COM)
Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:41:07 -0800 (PST)
Regina Pancake writes:
>> Now they use
>>specially made containers that are not recyclable at all due to their
>>composite structure of paper, waxes, and plastic, but are using up many
>>old growth trees in the process.
>>
>Just so you know, old growth trees are not used for making cheapy crap like
>food wrappers/containers. They are used for furniture and decrative fences
>etc. etc.
>no bussiness man would want to use old growth for such easy throw away
>items as food containers cause its much cheaper and easier to get the
>farmed, fast growing pine and excess wood shavings produced from the wood
>mills.
This is incorrect. The old growth forests in BC, Canada (e.g., those
on Vancouver Island) are being pulped for daily newspapers.