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Bloomberg News Demand from China is helping to fuel a waste-paper boom in the U.S. Mr.

Scrappy Collectors Profit From China's Paper Needs Jennifer Levitz 2011

In a sign of growing demand, combined total waste-paper exports out of the two busiest U.S. container ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles rose nearly 25% in 2010, surpassing the overall increase of 15% for all exports from those ports, according to the Port of Long Beach.

Scrappy Collectors Profit From China's Paper Needs Jennifer Levitz 2011

Ivan took a tissue out of a flat box on the table beside him and blew his nose, then dropped the used tissue carefully into a handy waste-paper basket.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine the waste-paper baskets of the hotels round Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated _Times_ leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who sent this singular message.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

We'd commune about the poetry of karma flowers, seafood, and women, he in his robes and waste-paper basket straw coolie hat, and me in the Thai fisherman pants and cotton kimono I'd recently purchased online to go native in.

A Frog in a Well 2010

When three kittens fell out of the wardrobe, I removed them and they rampaged in my bedroom, which was when they found the waste-paper basket and all climbed in.

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009

When it did not fit, we just said so, and it was crumpled up and thrown into the waste-paper basket!

Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

When three kittens fell out of the wardrobe, I removed them and they rampaged in my bedroom, which was when they found the waste-paper basket and all climbed in.

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009

The question was the topic of the day following coverage of the extravagant ways of John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, who spent $1.2 million on his office furnishings: $28,000 on curtains, $10,967 on a lampshade, $1,400 for a waste-paper bin, $88,000 for a rug and so on.

Vicky Ward: Cloud-Cuckoo-Land on Wall Street 2009

Someone on the lower reaches of government would have taken one look at it and tossed it into the waste-paper bin, then composing a stiff memo to his minister, suggesting that Turner and his committee should be put out to grass.

Archive 2008-12-01 Peter Troy 2008