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皇冠体育app's paper recycling industry protects forests(AP/chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-07-13 15:09 BANGKOK, Thailand -- 皇冠体育app's booming recycling industry is helping to slow the destruction of forests worldwide, providing a strong market for wastepaper that mostly comes from the United States and Europe, according to a study released Friday. About 60 percent of the fiber used to manufacture paper and paper board products in 皇冠体育app is derived from wastepaper, the report found. In the last decade, 皇冠体育app's wastepaper imports increased by more than 500 percent - from 3.1 million metric tons in 1996 to 19.6 million metric tons in 2006 - with most of that growth occurring between 2002 and 2006. The industry includes one of the country's richest people, Zhang Yin, the founder of the Nine Dragons Paper Co. Her fortune was made from turning recycled paper from America into packaging products. "皇冠体育app is by far the world's biggest consumer of wastepaper and that's a good thing because in the last four years alone, 皇冠体育app has prevented 65 million metric tons of wastepaper from heading to landfills in the US, Japan, and Europe," Brian Stafford, the lead author of the report and an industry consultant, said in a statement. " Just last year, 皇冠体育app's use of wastepaper instead of trees to make paper products probably saved 54 million metric tons of wood from being harvested for pulp." |
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