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Acceptable Paper & Cardboard Materials
- Newspapers, Inserts, Magazines & Mail
- Cardboard (flattened) & Paperboard (food boxes)
- Office, School Paper & Books
- Milk, Juice & Soup Cartons
- Any plastic liners must be removed
- Boxes must be flattened to save space
- Tissue Paper
- Pet food bags
- Paper Cups
- Shredded paper (take confidential papers to shred events or consult with a shredding service company)
- Typically, newspaper can be recycled 5-7 times
- Production of recycled paper uses 80% less water, 65% less energy and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production.
- American businesses throw away enough scrap paper each year to fill nearly 20 Sears Towers from top to bottom, if offices throughout the country increased the rate of two-sided photocopying from the current rate of 20% to 60%, they could save the equivalent of about 15 million trees
- Recycled paperboard is made from a combination of recycled fibers from various grades of paper stock, with 100 percent of its furnish being recycled fibers
Cardboard Recycling Facts:
- Three quarters of all U.S. paper recycled comes from corrugated and paperboard packaging
- 6 of every 10 corrugated boxes are recovered for recycling in the U.S.
- Paperboard or boxboard is not corrugated cardboard. Paperboard and boxboard are a lower grade fiber commodity