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[email protected]. The Student Newspaper Softball wins of Florida second straight International University tournament. 12 THE BEACON Vol. 17, Issue 40 WWW.BEACONNEWSPAPER.COM February 17, 2005 U.S. papermakers struggle to compete with China’s mills By FRANK GREVE “It’s as though we’re Knight Ridder a Third World country, Newspapers providing raw materials to manufacturing countries,” Americans are recycling fretted Stanley Lancey, an paper at an all-time high, economist at the American recapturing 300 pounds Forest & Paper Associa- per person each year. tion, a Washington-based That’s about half the paper industry trade group. produced in the United Recovery rates are States. steady but prices are soar- In addition to improve- ing for other U.S. recycled ments in the tactics of products, mainly fibers, waste-paper collection, metallics and plastics, said recycling is gaining from Jerry Powell, the editor China’s suddenly raven- of Resource Recycling, ous appetite for U.S. scrap a monthly magazine paper.