Plainwell Paper in modern times

After five generations of workers and financial hardships, life at Plainfield Paper is now much different. 

According to an excerpt from the article:

So unlike the rest of his family, Moran isn't working with giant machines to create reams of paper. Instead, he's part of a CRA work division doing environmental cleanup on a landfill in New York where toxic sludge was dumped in the 1970s. Moran said he became interested in civil engineering when he toured a cleanup site on the Kalamazoo River with his dad when he was 18.

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