Comments on: At Long Last, Recycling Has Become Normal http://www.renewnews.com/2008/03/22/at-long-last-recycling-has-become-normal/ A down-to-Earth resource about renewable energy and renewable resources. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gregory Cohen http://www.renewnews.com/2008/03/22/at-long-last-recycling-has-become-normal/comment-page-1/#comment-4901 Gregory Cohen Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:13:01 +0000 http://www.renewnews.com/2008/03/22/at-long-last-recycling-has-become-normal/#comment-4901 Here is a weird fact for you. Most paper is at least 10% recycled content or more, plus it probably has as much as 50% post industrial paper (also recycled) much more, but it is not declared because it's not a fixed content. If you declare paper to be 10% post consumer waste, it must be. No more and no less, and you need to have a (forgive me) paper trail to prove this. It's expensive to make sure something is exactly anything. the 100% recycled might be cheaper just because they don't have to track anything, and notice, it says nothing about post consumer waste. The stuff that is not consumer waste will get recycled for sure. These are end rolls, scraps from die cutting, left overs mostly. Easy to get from the people who create them. The problem is the recovery of post consumer waste and getting it back into the paper stream since it's of a random quality, not pre-sorted by type. Newspaper: hard to recycle. Cardboard: easier to. Blank paper from the end of a roll: Simple. -GReg Here is a weird fact for you. Most paper is at least 10% recycled content or more, plus it probably has as much as 50% post industrial paper (also recycled) much more, but it is not declared because it’s not a fixed content.

If you declare paper to be 10% post consumer waste, it must be. No more and no less, and you need to have a (forgive me) paper trail to prove this. It’s expensive to make sure something is exactly anything.

the 100% recycled might be cheaper just because they don’t have to track anything, and notice, it says nothing about post consumer waste. The stuff that is not consumer waste will get recycled for sure. These are end rolls, scraps from die cutting, left overs mostly. Easy to get from the people who create them. The problem is the recovery of post consumer waste and getting it back into the paper stream since it’s of a random quality, not pre-sorted by type.

Newspaper: hard to recycle. Cardboard: easier to. Blank paper from the end of a roll: Simple.

-GReg

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