FEASIBILITY OF USING RECYCLED PAPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05599A000100090002-3
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 28, 1971
• Content Type: MFR

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REF.SP EWE: vein? dtd 15 Jul 71 te .DC1 ft subject': STATINTL
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1. The concept of more exteosive use of recycled paper products luis been
studied in coordination with research tpeciatiste who are directly involved in pro:faction
and recycling technolegy for the paper products and printing industries as well as the
Federal Government. At present, aa average of 20 percent of this Agency's, and of
the Nation's, total paper consumption is ceining from fiber reclaimed from waatepaper.
The National Academy of Feiences hes rec trrhmended in a report to the Department a
Health, Education, and Welfare that gaale ehould be set to Increase ouch reuse to
35 percent by 1985. Industry, in gene/.al, is accepting its responsibility toward achieve-
n-lent of this goal and has made enceureging progress in iinproving the quality of recyclee
products. In this connection, the maseger-kent 1'4 pulpwood forests has also advanced to
the extent that this Nation is now gr "wing more pulpwood than it coastlines. Further
advancements are also expected throuiet in spreved forestry practices since fires, insects,
and disease are now destroying wore trees than are used for pulp production. It is
foreseen that pulpwood consumption eaty eoal or outstrip production by 1985, however,
if the use of paper products continuca to exeand. At present, the Federal Government
uses only one-half of 1 percent of the Taper prodaced for printing hi the United ctats.
2. Effective solutions to the f& owing problems with recycled paper are presently
required and are being sought by sett:9111gs and engineers to increase its potential use:
a. The successful recyc1in4 of -wastepaper is dependent upon its being kept
separate from other refuse. lottectlsn, sorting, and transportation now account
for 90 percent a all expenditure e for recycling, with the result thet the cost of
recycled products is prohibitive, excert in those regions where a recycling fncitity
is located near a concentrated simply of wastepaper.
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b. ecycling produces mere pollution than the processing- of wood flbers
due to the presence of rnore acids ;wel unusable Myra in the wastepaper supply..
This pollution problem can be eepectsel to increase since wastepaper can only
be recycled twice due to ,Jegeneeative of the fibers. The presence of usasithlf
fibers and pollutants, therefore, increases in proportion to the amount of pre-
viously recycled Mere coetainte in the wastepaper supply.
c. The quality of recycle-i xesiects is net yet assured, and developments
are needint as to quality coterele an improved machinery in the mills thee use
wastepaper.
d. It is impossible to mettece recycled paper of higher quality than that
contained in the wastepaper sunny. or this reason the products of recycled
waste are now limited prirnar1le tO lower quality paper products such as paper-
board, building pipers, tissues, an toweling.
C. Commercial paper sappier and printing houses generally do net
recominetel the use of recycle S paper for printed matter. Their reluctance
is primarily due to the lack of quality assurance and higher cost. it has not
been found satisfactory for T W!. -1,11, printing, presses such as those used by the
Agency printing facilities. Some- commercial firms have found it adequate for
low-quality multilith work. Itec.,::1e.,(1 paper for printing production can be ?Win&.
if the customer insists, but no Tilraritee is provided against its inherent Svelte.
L The 100 percent reclaireetp.-3par new marketed on a trial basis for typing
correspondence does not equal the qullity of paper now used for this perpeee. Neat
erasure' and corrections canast I emerle to its soft-textured surface. his
problem was confirmed by intertel eeency- tests of the e9colow bran) papers
distributel by a local piper firm?
3. The shertcoraings escribe -besee will undoubtedly be solved as research and
development work progress. JntIseheiona are reached, the Government Printing Office
(GPO) is understandably reluctant to eemit the Federal agencies to an all-out reogram
aimed toward the immediate, 100 peree s time of recycled paper. G-0 advises that an
opinion to this effect will be reflected to a tyrttmoming report from Its Chief of Technical
Research Operations, Dr. FtZbs. Tha13ency obtains 85-90 percent of its piper require-
ments through :1-0), and GPO has ne prf-AP t this time to stock paper having a high recycled
content.
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4. The Assistant Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) advises
he JCP also does not plan to issue specifications calling for increased Government
use of recycled paper due to toe riunber of recycling problems requiring solution
before the success of an expanded pro4ram can be assured. Further, the JCP finds no
merit in the several bills now proposzd in this area by legislative representatives and
expects none of them to be passed.
5. The remaining 10-15 percent of the Agency s paper supplIe8 are obtained
arily through the General Services Administration a Federal Supply Service (FSS).
the type of paper supplies provided by the FSS falls in the utilitarian category, i.e.,
paperboard, toweling, tissues, etc., ,-,:hese are presently adaptable to production through
the recycling process. The Director f the Standards Division, FSS, advises that standard
specifications have now been adopted for 14 of the various paper items which can be pro-
duced from recycled waste, and continued progress is planned. As the standards are
adopted, the recycled items will be furnished to all Government agencies.
6. In summary, considerable research and development work remains to be done
in perfecting the recycling process anti the resulting products. It Is concluded that the
Office of Logistics should continue to ,:eep abreast of all progress in this area and take
action to expand the Agency's use of recycled paper products whenever their quality and
cost are comparable to woodpulp products.
STATINTL
Member
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15 July 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT
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My Memorandum, dated 30 June 1970
to the Director
Subject: Request for Elaboration
of Issue Raised in the Director's
Briefing
1. In following up my earlier inquiry as to what the
Central Intelligence Agency could practically do in joining
the struggle for ecological survival, one possible answer
emerges from the substance of the attached article, "Read
and Recycle and Save our Trees," published in the July 15
edition of the Washington Post.
2. Would it not be possible for the CIA to take the
initiative and start using recycled paper wherever feasible,
as has been recommended for the GPO and GSA, and -- by
publicizing that fact -- encourage other government and
non-government organizations to follow its example?
' 3. Simultaneously this suggestion is being submitted
to the Suggestion Awards Committee, since its adoption
would save the Agency a great deal of money.
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30 June 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Request for Elaboration of Issue
Raised in the Director's Briefing
1. In the conference with Agency personnel, held in
the auditorium on 19 June 1970, you expressed great concern
about the future, stating that the problems of the environ-
ment are worse than the atomic bomb or the ICBM.
2. There is, as you are aware, widespread agreement
with that concern, and some, in fact, have called for
immediate all-out international efforts to prevent a final
global disaster.
3. In view of these warnings and your own expressed
concern, do you have any guidance for the Agency toward
participating in some way in this struggle for survival?
WL:ntl
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