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To: SiouxPal who wrote (190366)	4/27/2010 10:53:35 AM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 361952

Good morning! The crisis of the day is toilet paper: ...thus, the toilet paper industry finds itself at a crossroads -- a difficult situation that some blame on the advent of email, the rise of the iPad, Kindle, Nook, and products like PowerPoint. According to a report in the current issue of Chemical and Engineering News, used white paper is “increasingly hard to find and much more costly thanks to growth in electronic communications.” While the quantity of office paper being used is going down with the rise in electronic communication, there’s a disconnect no one’s talking about,” he said. “Most recycled fiber from office paper is not useful for making premium consumer toilet tissue; to get to the level of softness consumers demand, it needs to be made from virgin fiber. (Though, we can all surely remember at least one or two memos that would’ve made perfect TP.) minyanville.com