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To: pocotrader who wrote (89335)	8/16/2018 2:14:22 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364371

Plastic can be disposed of, but the proliferation of plastic bottles and cups and straws and other items that are used and discarded on a daily basis is absurd. When billions of people do this every day it obviously is a legitimate environmental threat and there is no reason at all for doing it other than to save a a penny apiece. If we're going to use disposables, there is no reason not to use paper IMO. We have what amounts to a glut of timber, much of which is genetically designed for just this sort of thing. We used to use chips from sawmills, but today, we use less sawtimber, too. The old CNS (Chip-N-Saw) mill is outdated. Where I used to work we had something like 135 CNS mills we did financials on. Today, I'm not sure I could find one of those other than the main mill. Every day there were hopper cars lined up full of chips on side tracks going all the way out of town. "Shakers" would dump a rail car load onto an underground auger in a minute's time to be carried to the paper mill.