|
|
Article: Paper losses: L.A.'s biggest export stacking up, unwanted.(South Bay Document Destruction Inc.)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 10, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 CBJ, L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
For years, South Bay Document Destruction Inc., a Gardena company that exports waste paper and cardboard, saw its business boom as demand overseas soared.
But suddenly, its business is in the trash can. Towering stacks of paper are building up on its one-acre lot, so it stopped accepting recycled paper from the public and for the first time it is charging a fee to pick up old cardboard boxes from groceries and the like.
Recycled paper is the biggest export by volume from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It is bought mainly by Chinese paper mills that recycle it into packaging that's used to box up goods which ...