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Wastepaper in the United States: Outlook for Wastepaper Consumption to the Year 2002

Author: ​Vicente Cárdenas

Executive Summary
This paper provides a projection of wastepaper consumption for the year 2002. Such a projection is difficult because there is no existing database to characterize how wastepaper gets used in each end product yet we know from fragmentary sources that uses are changing. A procedure was developed to allocate collection to uses in several stages in order to balance collection with uses and to characterize how uses have been changing.

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