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The article discusses the recycling process of paper and how recycled paper can be used. The paper recycling involves processes including sorting, paper pulping and its bleaching, and spreading into sheets. It mentions the use of recycled paper, including printing of newspapers, books, and magazines; producing cardboard boxes and paper bags; and creating crafts including origami and papier mâché, to reduce fresh demand of paper.

Activists claim that 49,600 trees were cut down to produce paper for ballots in recent general elections in Pakistan. However, experts argue that Pakistan primarily imports paper and relies on recycling for electoral materials. They highlight the country's minimal forest coverage and emphasize the importance of forest conservation in reducing carbon emissions. The suggestion of using electronic voting machines to reduce paper usage was dismissed in previous elections. [Extracted from the article]

America Recycles Day is an annual celebration dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. Paper recycling is a major success story, with over 2/3 of paper used in the U.S. being recycled. The American Forest & Paper Association reports that the paper recycling rate was 68% in 2022, and the cardboard recycling rate was an impressive 93%. The success of paper recycling in the U.S. is attributed to strong, accessible recycling programs and the efforts of the paper industry. However, there are still challenges, such as contamination from non-recyclable materials and the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility programs. The goal is to increase the use of recycled paper in new products to 50% by 2030. [Extracted from the article]

International Paper (IP) has announced its acquisition of London-based DS Smith in a deal valued at $9.9 billion. The merger is expected to close by the fourth quarter of this year and will create a global leader in sustainable packaging. The merger will strengthen IP's European footprint and recycling operations, while also enhancing its North American business. The combined company will be headquartered in Memphis, with plans to establish a Europe, Middle East, and Africa region headquarters in London. [Extracted from the article]

Researchers at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University have conducted a study on recycling waste paper to create environmentally friendly mosquito repellent sticks using natural Azadirachtin. The researchers highlight the issue of paper waste generated by educational institutes, offices, and packaging, and propose using neem and paper waste to create mosquito repellent sticks. They explain that neem, a readily available tree in India, has medicinal value and can help protect against environmental pollution. The study concludes that camphor, a white crystalline material with aromatic properties, is used in the burning of mosquito-repellent sticks. [Extracted from the article]

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B File folders. b If you don't have many categories of paperwork to stash and have mostly switched over to digital bills and bank statements, a few file folders may be all you need. Credit-card offers, bills, ATM receipts, sales receipts, account statements - basically, anything that contains info beyond your address - should be shredded first. Follow these easy steps to eliminate pileups of invites, permission slips, and bills. [Extracted from the article]

The NextGen Consortium and the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) have announced a significant milestone in their efforts to increase paper cup recycling in the United States. Multiple paper mills in the US are now accepting single-use polyethylene-coated paper cups, bringing the total number of North American mills accepting paper cups to over 40. This development is a result of mills' interest in recovering high-quality fiber from coated paper packaging as supplies of newspaper and office paper in the recycling stream decrease. The NextGen Consortium and FPI are also working with other mills and stakeholders to expand paper cup recycling further. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the use of recycled-content and other environmentally preferable papers by the U.S. government. Ever since a government employee in China invented paper almost 2,000 years ago, governments have been using paper as the primary means to explain government policies. What more and more governments are beginning to realize, however, is that the paper itself also says a lot about a government's policies. Buying recycled-content, process-chlorine free paper, that was not made with trees from endangered forests, for example, is increasingly viewed as an important indicator of the value a government agency or private-sector company places on protecting human health and reducing related environmental impacts. INSETS: Spending Federal Dollars on Paper?;Important Distinctions;Innovative Contract Language.

The 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes were recently awarded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The awards celebrate surprising and humorous achievements that also provoke thought. This year's winners included B.F. Skinner, who received the peace prize posthumously for his experiments using pigeons to guide missile flight paths. Other winners explored topics such as plants imitating artificial plants, the direction of hair whorls, mammals breathing through their anus, the probability of a flipped coin landing on the same side, the effectiveness of fake medicine with painful side effects, the swimming abilities of a dead trout, separating drunk and sober worms, the recordkeeping of supercentenarians, and how cows spill their milk. [Extracted from the article]

Suhar Industrial City has signed an investment deal with Keryas Paper Industry. The deal provides Keryas with land in Phase Seven of Suhar Industrial City to establish a paper recycling [...]

More than 12 million tonnes of paper and paper packaging have been recovered for recycling in South Africa over the past decade. This, according to RecyclePaperZA, the country's paper recycling [...]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Residents in Lexington, Ky., will be able to recycle their paper again after a six-month interruption. The city had suspended all paper recycling last May after it [...]

NEENAH, Wis. -- Amcor (NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC), a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, today announced the North American launch of curbside-recyclable AmFiber SP TM sp Performance Paper packaging, part of the company's AmFiber portfolio. AmFiber Performance Paper runs on existing flexible packaging equipment, achieving machine speeds comparable to plastic-based packaging. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Phoenix Paper LLC, which is owned by Chinese manufacturerShanying International and runs a paper mill in west Kentucky, is expanding with a new facility that represents a [...]

The US-China trade dispute had an impact on pulp and paper product trade between the two countries, with China's tax countermeasures causing the US to lose its status as a trading partner in China for pulp and paper product imports. The restrictions on waste paper imports have shifted the focus of China's paper raw material imports, with the US no longer being the main importer of China's paper raw materials. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced that Total Fiber Recovery (TFR) will invest $49 million to establish its first recycled pulp production facility in the city of Chesapeake. [...]

DE PERE, Wis.-- Sustana, the sustainable fiber and paper industry leader, announced today that it has completed a transaction with Hanna Paper ("Hanna" or the "Company"), one of the largest high-grade paper recycling companies in North America. Hanna Paper is committed to providing wastepaper management solutions that meet the specific needs of each of their customers, ensuring that they have access to the most efficient and cost-effective waste paper management solution for their unique requirements. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Solid waste officials in Frankfort and Franklin County, Ky., are looking for ways to repurpose paper products after the Lexington, Ky., recycling plant abruptly stopped accepting paper. [...]

Presents information on paper recycling. Reasons for recycling paper; Benefits to the forest; Types of recyclable papers; Limits to paper recyclability.

Byline: Waste360 Staff The city of Lexington, Ky., in May suspended paper recycling due tochanges in the global recycling market.Now, the city is taking a step toward reestablishing paper recycling [...]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Moore & Associates, a paper recycling consulting firm based in Atlanta, announced that a new report from Hong Kong-based NPC Partners, a consultancy for the pulp and [...]

The NextGen Consortium has unveiled a new report, aiming to boost paper cup recycling in the United States. The report, titled "Closing the Loop on Cups: Collective Action to Advance the Recovery of Paper Cups in the U.S.", examines the roles of various stakeholders within the paper cup recovery value chain, including paper mills, materials recovery facilities (MRFs), brands, consumers, and local communities, and offers recommended actions to boost paper cup recovery and promote a more circular system. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the process of paper recycling in South Africa and the difference between recyclable products and locally recycled products. It explains that a product being recyclable does not necessarily mean that it can be collected efficiently or recycled locally. It also emphasizes the importance of separation-at-source, where waste is separated at the point of consumption to ensure that recyclables are not contaminated by wet waste.

Byline: Waste360 Staff The mayor of Lexington, Ky., just announced a new pilot program to help save paper recycling in the city. City employees will kick off the new program [...]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Lexington, Ky., announced it is suspending paper recycling in the city due to changes in the global recycling market. City officials say the change is temporary while [...]

Byline: Waste360 Staff An opinion piece posted in the Reno Gazette Journal examines how dual stream paper recycling will bring additional revenue and environmental benefits to Nevada. Under the current [...]

Greif's Paper Packaging and Services (PPS) business has announced two major investments in its recycling operations to support its growth strategy in sustainable paper packaging solutions. Greif's Industrial Products Group converts these rolls and sheets from the Greif paper mill into finished paper products and packaging, including tubes and cores and other various paperboard products. [Extracted from the article]

Premier Daniel Andrews and federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek on Thursday visited Visy's Coolaroo facility in Melbourne's outer north to unveil a paper drum pulper. The drum pulper was a first for Australia and represents the most advanced paper recycling technology globally, according to Visy executive chairman Anthony Pratt. [Extracted from the article]

TESTS Toilet paper is one of those products that you probably don't think about too much until it's hard to find. Our table shows which products are made from recycled paper - two of which perform well and are recommended - the iCare Double Length Tissue 3 Ply and HWRco 100% Recycled Toilet Paper 3 Ply. Both of these products are made from 100% recycled paper and carry the FSC Recycled logo as well as being chlorine-free. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the concept of upcycling, which involves transforming old and useless items into new and improved ones. Unlike recycling, where materials are broken down and used to create new products, upcycling focuses on enhancing the quality of the original item. The article provides examples of upcycling projects, such as creating a bowling game using decorated plastic bottles and making a pencil holder out of empty cans. It also suggests making a draft dodger using old tights and filling it with beans and cotton stuffing to keep out cold air. The article includes several colorful photos showcasing these upcycling ideas. [Extracted from the article]

FCC joins a growing trend of MRFs and communities that are including paper cups and food and beverage cartons as part of their residential recycling programs. FCC Environmental Services, a leading waste management provider in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, has installed new robotic sorting technology at its materials recovery facility (MRF). [Extracted from the article]

The Northeast Recycling Council's (NERC) has published the latest update to its Summary of Announced Increased Capacity to Use Recycled Paper report. The list of additional recycled paper capacity includes new paper mills, expansion of existing capacity at packaging mills and conversions of printed paper machines at existing mills to produce packaging paper (e.g. from newsprint to packaging). [Extracted from the article]

This article from Ranger Rick provides instructions on how to make snowflakes out of paper. It suggests using different types of paper, such as plain white, construction, or gift wrap, and provides a list of materials needed, including a ruler, scissors, and glue. The article outlines a step-by-step process for folding and cutting the paper to create the snowflake shape, and suggests using symmetrical patterns. It also encourages readers to recycle school papers for this craft and offers downloadable patterns. The article concludes by suggesting hanging the snowflakes as decorations or giving them as gifts. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: arstechnica.uk Printer giant Epson has developed an in-office paper recycling machine. Called the PaperLab, you put waste paper in, and then new, bright white printer paper comes out. Epson [...]