- Date
- 1991-01-29
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentconservationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 29, 1991 Beaver Beacon published E.B. Lange’s environmental feature on plastics and recycled paper. It examined plastic coding and weak recycling markets, polystyrene and manufacturing pollution, recycled-paper labeling, bleaching and dioxins, and the environmental costs of paper production.
Evidence limits
This is an educational feature partly reprinted from The Recycled Times; its technical claims should be checked against contemporary or current technical and regulatory sources.
Sources
- Explains plastic coding and recycling limits, polystyrene and manufacturing pollution, paper’s pre- and post-consumer recycled content, bleaching, dioxins, and the environmental tradeoffs of paper production. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1991-01_Beaver-Beacon
- Paired held eighteen-page January issue PDF.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1991-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island recycling feature examines plastics, paper, and environmental costs, 1991”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-plastics-paper-environment-recycling-1991/, accessed [date], citing “Plastics and the Environment” and “What Is Recycled Paper?,” Beaver Beacon, January 29, 1991. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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