[Tailback]

Your garbage man friend is correct (I'm a former garbage god)except for newspaper, and cardboard. Those two types of paper are easily re-cycled and save on wood that's better put to other uses like houses, plywood, particle board products, and my favorite gunstocks. Actually about 6 years ago in Portland, OR the price of a ton of newspaper at the recycling center was up to over $100 and we actually had people driving our routes ahead of us stealing the newspaper from our customers. Plastic and glass is better off in the landfill because they're worthless.

[supercat]

Your garbage man friend is correct (I'm a former garbage god)except for newspaper, and cardboard. Those two types of paper are easily re-cycled and save on wood that's better put to other uses like houses, plywood, particle board products, and my favorite gunstocks.

Tree farms are capable of producing as much pulpwood as is needed. Besides, if reducing atmosphereic CO2 is desirable, growing trees, turning them into paper, and landfilling them will be an effective method of sequestering CO2.