From Will Leong:

Re: Can’t go paperless here: demand for soft toilet paper getting (April 22): The cause of the shortage of office paper to recycle - e-mail - is questionable. It may be more a consequence of the recession. I’ve seen a report that the prices paid for newsprint & cardboard to recycle has dropped significantly. The reason given was that there is less demand for cardboard containers for consumer goods due to the drop in demand for those goods.