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To be released immediately: 10^th November 1999

MPs CALLED ON TO SUPPORT NEWSPRINT BILL

The Community Recycling Network (CRN) is writing to all Members of Parliament to ask for their support for the Newspaper and Magazine Recycling Bill.

The CRN and Friends of the Earth are urging MPs to adopt the Bill if their names are picked in the Private Members' Ballot on November 25.

A newsprint bill would require newspaper and magazine publishers to collect 50 per cent of the volume of the paper they put on the market by 2010 and it would also ensure that newspapers contain 80 per cent recycled paper by the same date.

Andy Moore, CRN's Co-ordinator says: "The Bill will be good for the environment, employment and the economy. It would help alleviate pressure on forests and the wildlife living in them. Recycling also generates less pollution and greenhouse gases than the alternatives of incineration and landfill.

"A recycled content of 80 per cent could mean the creation of more than 9,700 new jobs. Import of newsprint would also fall - potentially saving £175 million a year."

The Bill is well supported by more than 320 MPs and organisations ranging from the Environmental Investigation Agency, Women's Environmental Network, Young Peoples Trust for the Environment, Waste Watch to trade organisations such as the Independent Waste Paper Processors Association and UK Waste Management Ltd.

For further information:

Andy Nelmes, CRN Press Officer, (0117) 907 4368.

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