One of America's largest recycling companies is urging local businesses to participate in Earth Day 2004 by purging file cabinets of non-essential office paper and sending it to local recycling centers.

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The encouragement to recycle comes from Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) to business owners, local officials and office managers who want to educate and involve employees in workplace recycling. The activity, scheduled for Earth Day April 22, encourages employees to increase recycling of paper by clearing out old, unneeded files.

"In many parts of the country, businesses and organizations use Earth Day as an opportunity to clean out files," said Brian Johnson, Weyerhaeuser's recycling manager for the greater Los Angeles area. "We see this challenge as a terrific, one-day project for businesses and office groups that want to make a big difference in a short period of time. It can be as simple as dedicating just one hour to purging old files."

Johnson said that at the company's Norwalk plant, Weyerhaeuser not only recycles office paper, but also shreds and destroys confidential documents, if requested, as a part of its secure document destruction program.

For more information about Weyerhaeuser's paper recycling program in the Los Angeles area, businesses should call 562-483-6680.

Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest integrated forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. In 2003, sales were $19.9 billion. It has offices or operations in 18 countries, with customers worldwide. Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. Additional information about Weyerhaeuser's businesses, products and practices is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/ .

                     TOP 10 Paper Recycling Factoids

   1.  The world's first piece of paper was made from recycled material.
       Around 200 B.C., the Chinese used old fishing nets to make the
       world's very first piece of paper.
   2.  Each person in the United States uses approximately 749 pounds of
       paper a year.
   3.  Every year Americans throw away enough office and writing paper to
       build a 12-foot high wall that spans from to Seattle to New York.
   4.  We recycle paper to conserve resources -- water, energy and landfill
       space.  Roughly half of all paper made today is recycled.  The other
       half goes landfills or is disposed of in other ways.
   5.  Paper accounts for two-thirds of all the packaging material recovered
       for recycling in the United States -- more than glass, metal and
       plastic combined.
   6.  Paper fiber can usually be reused up to eight times.
   7.  Weyerhaeuser began recycling paper 1974.  Today it is one of the
       largest paper recyclers in the world.
   8.  The paper Weyerhaeuser collects and recycles in a year would fill
       around 124,000 rail cars, enough to create a train nearly 1,000 miles
       long full of old office memos, empty boxes and last Sunday's sports
       sections.  To say it another way, the amount of paper Weyerhaeuser
       recycles in a year is enough to pack more than six sports stadiums
       full.
   9.  Weyerhaeuser uses the fiber to make new products.  We average
       40 percent recycled content across all product lines.  Containerboard
       packaging products average nearly 60 percent recycled content. You
       can find recycled paper in tissue, paper towels, newspapers,
       corrugated packaging, molded containers, cereal boxes, egg cartons,
       animal bedding, books, writing and copy papers, and more.
   10. Weyerhaeuser supports the industry's goal to increase paper recycling
       rates from the current national recycling rate of 50 percent to
       55 percent by 2012.

  For more information contact:
   Frank Mendizabal, 253-924-3357

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SOURCE: Weyerhaeuser Company

CONTACT: Frank Mendizabal, +1-253-924-3357, for Weyerhaeuser

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