"What would you guess happens to this book after you read it? If you are a social person, you might share it with a friend. If you are a resourceful person, you might resell it. And if you recycle it, chances are good it will end up with Yan Cheung of Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited in China. It won't take long, either. "The newspaper that you put in your newspaper bin—three weeks later, it's in the hands of someone in China," explains Bill Moore of Moore & Associates in Atlanta, a consultant on recovered paper. Amazing—but how does this happen?

Resourceful Recycler
Rewind to 1990. In that year, Cheung created America Chung Nam (ACN) with just 3,800 US dollars. Her plan was to buy recycled paper in the United States and export it to China. "