How Green is your Paper?
Trees make better sense than recycling newsprint, or little green signs saying 'no'.
Alan Garth
The frees, indeed all newspapers, are getting a bad ecological press - 'not worth reading', and 'bad for the environment'. An industry leader stresses quality, but there's also a disconcerting probability that the prodigious demand for more newsprint, therefore trees, is an ecological boon. Despite the government's woolly support for recycling, trees generate oxygen. Collecting and recycling newsprint (or doing without) seems to deplete it.
At a recent Financial Timesconference on the prospects for the publishing...