vision2020@moscow.com: Fw: 2/23 article titled "Recycling proposal is a new idea for Idaho"
Fw: 2/23 article titled "Recycling proposal is a new idea for Idaho"
Tom and Briana LeClaire (bri-tom@moscow.com)
Tue, 24 Feb 98 22:34:52 PST
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> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 15:08:08
> From: bri-tom
> To: Moscow-Pullman Daily News
> Cc: Vision 2020
> Subject: 2/23 article titled "Recycling proposal is a new idea for Idaho"
>
> Let me see if I have this straight: the Daily News thinks it won't cost
> any more for local and state governments to use recycled, instead of
> virgin, paper if the Idaho Legislature signs off on a ten percent
> purchasing preference, as advocated by Moscow Recycling and a graduate
> student. HUH?!?
>
> Our local members of the fourth estate must have failed Economics 101,
> because a ten percent purchasing preference means, in plain English,
> goverment agencies within Idaho will be allowed to spend up to ten percent
> MORE of our hard-earned tax dollars on paper, as long as it's recycled.
> What a great idea -- NOT!
>
> Did it ever occur to anyone why virgin paper is less expensive than
> recycled? It's because recycling paper is like recycling sand. If my
> toddler decides she wants a sandbox this summer, after I can't talk her
out
> of it I'll head to a nursery and buy some sand. I will NOT go to East
City
> Park and pick up the individual granules that have been cast aside by
> enthusiastic sand-castle builders. Why will I not do this? Because sand
> is cheap and the time required for the labor-intensive sand-recycling task
> isn't worth my while. Guess what? Recycled paper isn't worth our while,
> either! There never was and never will be a virgin paper shortage.
>
> Although I grow weary from pointing it out so frequently, I must add that
> Relene Johnson of Moscow Recycling is completely wrong when she says leaky
> (error #1) landfill space is filling up (error #2). But I suppose
> fact-finding would be asking too much from the Daily News, especially when
> writing about the recycling religion.
>
> Before anyone writes this page to excoriate me for my heresy, read "What A
> Waste" in the June 30, 1996 New York Times Magazine. I myself am going to
> thank my lucky stars for our neighbors in southern Idaho who have no doubt
> elected legislators who will kill this extremely stupid bill.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Briana LeClaire
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