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Because of its higher costs, recycled paper still comprises less than ten percent of the US paper market. The San Diego-based Recycled Products Purchasing Cooperative purchasing cooperative,
n a group of dental professionals pooling their financial resources to purchase large quantities of supplies and equipment for the purpose of obtaining a discount.
 (RPPC RPPC Real Photo Post Card
RPPC Rigid Plastic Packaging Container (Law; California)
RPPC Radcliffe Public Policy Center
RPPC Research Programme Planning Committee (IHDP) 
) is slowly expanding the recycled paper market through group purchases that pass volume discounts on to RPPC members. By the end of 2000, RPPC members had purchased nearly 60,000 cases of recycled printing and writing paper -- the equivalent of saving 10,000 full-grown adj. 1. .
a. 1. Having reached the limits of growth; mature; fully developed; - used mostly of living organisms; as, A full-grown lion can easily kill an unarmed man. s>.

Adj. 1.
 trees. The RPPC intends to rev up Verb 1. rev up - speed up; "let's rev up production"
step up

increase - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"

2.
 its purchases by 400 percent over the next two years. For information on becoming a member of RPPC, contact Solana Recyclers. [(760) 436-7586, www.recycledproducts.org]
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Title Annotation:Recycled Products Purchasing Cooperative
Publication:Earth Island Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 22, 2001
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