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Mill could provide a market for Oregon's recycled paper now languishing in recycling centers; in a turnaround, owner now says it might sell to a new mill operator
The Atlanta-based owner of Newberg's shuttered paper mill now says it's open to "all options" for selling the mill, after the Portland Tribune published a story documenting the company's efforts to assure the mill's papermaking machinery is turned into scrap metal so it can't be reused to make pulp or paper.
Oregon's recycling industry has high hopes that an empty paper mill in the Northwest can be restarted, providing a market for the mountains of scrap paper that are piling up since China halted purchases of mixed paper and plastics collected in our curbside recycling program.
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