…Now the beauty of paper is that it is not only recyclable, its also compostable, and wood fiber papers come from a renewable resource. However, a former paper industry executive stated that you can’t recycle paper forever. …But the use of virgin wood fiber is a major sticking point for the environmental activists. …While the environmental activists will show you a picture of a large stately tree in an old growth forest and tell you that it is going to be chopped up for tissue paper, the facts are a bit different. …What you’ll see are decks full of logs that have hollow or spongy centers, radial checks, logs that are small or crooked or were standing dead trees before they were cut down. …None of them could have been utilized to make lumber, veneer or poles.