The modem junkman’ s world

holds a host of surprises for -

the Skeena Valley Recycling

‘Society, but the group is.
Staying with it. ;

The Skeena Valley Recycling
; - Society got encouraging news last
- week from a-pulp and. newsprint

producing: company in north-.
| eastern B.C. Finlay. Forest Prod-.

ucts of Mackenzie is now putting
used paper into its newsprint, and

the company is looking for

recyclable newsprint and other

paper from Highway 16 corridor
communities.

Dale Bojarski, a shift supervi-
sor for Finlay, said in an inter-
view in Terrace last Thursday

-that the company has run a pilot

project for the past six months to
see how much recycled fibre it

_ | could incorporate into its news-
print without affecting the quality
and appearance of the finished

product. They also wanted to see

how the community around the

* Terrace Review — March 27, 1992

plant would respond to a'recycling
initiative to provide the required
amount of used paper.

The project succeeded on both
counts. Finlay determined: that
the newsprint mix would take 3-
5% recycled paper blended into
the virgin fibre with no negative
effect, and. the District: of .Mac-
kenzie during that period recycled
50% of all its waste paper, a least
of the kind the mill could use.

Maintdining the 3-5% mix,
Bojarski said, Finlay can.use up
to 1,000 tons of used paper per
year from the communities along
Highway 16 west of Prince
George.

Although the Skeena Valley
Recycling Society has sent paper

‘to the recently commissioned

NewsTech de-inking plant in New