<B>Lockport Switches Recyclers</B>

The city of Lockport, N.Y., has begun shipping the old newspaper and old corrugated collected through its curbside program to Junction Road Recycling. The decision follows Buffalo Paperboard's announcement that it would only operate 10 days a month for the rest of the year and would no longer take the recyclables, reported the Buffalo News.

Junction Road Recycling will take the paper under an interim arrangement that does not involve any payments to the city.

Buffalo Paperboard had been paying the city $10 per ton, an average of $909.69 per month since January 1999, according to figures from the city engineer's office.

Lockport offers curbside recycling only of newspaper and cardboard, materials that Buffalo Paperboard had been using to produce facing paper for wallboard used in housing construction.

It cut back production because slow housing construction in the Northeast has resulted in a decline in orders.

It cut back production because slow housing construction in the Northeast has resulted in a decline in orders.

The move to idle the plant follows the company's decision to shutter its New Jersey board mill due to contract problems between Caraustar Industries and Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Several other paper companies have announced plans to shut down machines for extended period of time due to slack demand for finished products.