Low-priced soft toilet paper comes largely from recycled office paper, but the rise of e-mail and paperless communications means used white office paper “is getting increasingly hard to find,” wrote Melody Voith, senior editor of the publication, in the article.
The shortage of used office paper as well as newsprint is affecting other sectors of the paper market as well, the article adds. A shortage of recycled paper can be made up with paper from freshly chopped trees, but this is costlier and tougher on the environment.
Paper from “virgin” trees is the highest quality and contains long fibers from the cell walls of plants. As paper is recycled one or more times, the fibers are progressively broken down and weakened, and the paper quality diminishes.
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