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POST CONSUMER
Fibers
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Old
Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) includes most types of corrugated
packing, gaylords, etc. Boxboard, Kraft paper (brown grocery
bags), carrier stock, cereal and shoe boxes are accepted by
the mills if they represent less than 5% of the load.
Waxed
cardboard is not included in this category because it is water
resistant. Also excluded is Asian cardboard because the quantity
of fiber is minimal and it dissolves as a powder in water.
You can recognize Asian cardboard by its yellowish color.
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Newsprint
grade fiber includes all newsprints, flyers and inserts. Minimal
amounts of magazines are acceptable, but telephone directories
are excluded by most mills because of the glue present on the
binding. |
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Low
grade mixed paper includes all rejected fibers from the recycling
centers. This grade includes all types of fibers like boxboard,
telephone directories, office mixed paper, brown Kraft paper,
newsprint and OCC and requires minimal sorting. |
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The
office waste grade comes from the daily operations of companies
and includes white paper, newspaper, computer paper, etc. Carbon
paper is excluded because it is not made of fiber. |
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There
are also different printer grades that are categorized and have
an added value like unprinted white paper, production clippings,
computer paper or glossy paper. |
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All
fibers should, as much as possible, be clean, dry and free of
contaminants such as plastic, glass, metal, wood, mud, rock,
organic material, dangerous and medical products, etc. |
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