OOP: Grades of Recycling - was - Re: Two-way Mirror
pickle_jimmy
kemp at arcom.com.au
Fri Jun 27 06:53:24 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 64759
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "medeacallous"
<medeacallous at y...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...>
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> > My edition (British) is made with recycled paper, so no trees
> lost. I
> > understand that the Canadian is recycled too.
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> > Hope that helps,
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> > Grey Wolf
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> Um, Grey Wolf...
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> Could you clarify the info about OotP British edition being printed
> on recycled paper? As far as I know, and according to several web
> sources (links below), the Canadian edition is the only one printed
> on entirely post-consumer paper, which means it's the only one
which
> used zero trees. It may be that the British edition contains
> recycled fibres, or is all recycled but not all post-consumer, but
> that would mean that it is not a 'zero trees' print run. May I ask
> the source of your information that the UK edition is 'tree free'?
> What exactly does this source say?
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> BTW, here's the information about the Canadian edition:
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> http://www.oldgrowthfree.com/potter.html
> *scroll down to the 'Ancient Forest Friendly Potter Facts' title
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> http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-fi-
> potter19jun19,0,2173988.story?coll=cl-books-features
> *scroll down to the third-to-last paragraph
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Where do we stand on pirate electronic copies downloaded from the
internet? No trees there! (Are we more concerned about trees or
piracy? no answer needed)
I would have thought as long as the book was printed on a renewable
paper source that should satisfy everyone.
If the paper I recycled to print HP came originally from old growth
forest is that OK? I'm reusing something I shouldn't have used in the
first place.
Pickle Jimmy (who bought his copy in Australia, and doesn't know if
he killed a tree or not :-(
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