It is in final interviews for a House recycling coordinator, which would fill the position for the first time in nearly three years, and it plans to hire the same position for the Senate. In July, Chicago-based environmental group Sustain filmed Farr and a GRRN representative as they toured bales of recycled paper from Congress. There were coffee grounds and tossed lunches mixed in with paper, and cardboard and aluminum cans in the trash, said Bill Sheehan, GRRN network coordinator. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, recalled the night he worked late and saw a custodian dump trash in with recycled material his office had carefully sorted. He assured me they had a new recycling method.
Recycled paper can bring in much more revenue per ton.
Krause, Timothy, Adhesives make paper recycling a sticky situation, Resource Recycling, September 2000, 36-40. In fact, the use of self-adhesive stamps by the Postal Service has grown from 0 percent in 1990 to 93 percent of the approximately 38 billion stamps sold in 1999. When introduced into the paper recycling stream, PSA s break down into small particles called stickies. The Postal Service originally initiated its Environmentally Benign Pressure Sensitive Adhesives Program in 1994 to explore components of pressure sensitive construction, including face stock and adhesive layers that not only met stringent USPS requirements for postage stamps, but also could be processed in a variety of commercial recycling facilities. These adhesives were used in a scale-up production of 129 individual constructions.