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Paper & Cardboard

Acceptable Paper & Cardboard Materials

Prepare for Discarding– Place in Single Stream Recycling Container

Do Not Recycle

Tissue Paper
Pet food bags
Paper Cups
Shredded paper (take confidential papers to shred events or consult with a shredding service company)

Paper Recycling Facts:

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

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