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Recycling Paper
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Sorting
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Storage
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Re-pulping and Screening
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Cleaning
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Deinking
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Refining, Bleaching and Color Stripping
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Papermaking
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Recycled Paper

• Guidelines are reviewed by EPA
• May contain
• Preconsumer paper waste
• Postconsumer paper waste
• Both
• FTC guidelines
• Labels must consist of percentage and type of
  recycled content

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Recycled Paper

• Before paper can be reused, it goes through
  chemical and mechanical processes
• De-inking
• Bleaching

• Elemental chlorine was previously used for
  bleaching
• Papers may now be totally chlorine-free (TCF)

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Paper Recycling

• Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Forestry
  Initiative, and Green Press Initiative are
  organizations that help industry be more
  environmentally friendly
• Recycling involves preconsumer waste or
  postconsumer waste
• Elementally chlorine-free bleaching is one way of
  bleaching paper

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