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2016

THE I SR I SCRAP YEARBOOK

START Today’s

Yournew computerarrives packed inabox made from this recyclingprocess.

newspaperscan be recycled into tomorrow’s cardboardboxes.

Old Newspapers Can Become New Again! Newspapers go through a paper recycling process so that trees don’t have to be chopped down to make new paper, protecting the environment. Did you know: • Since 1990, Americans have recycledmore than 1.1 billion tons of recovered paper. • Nearly 77% of all U.S. papermakers use some recovered paper to make everything fromnewspaper to paper packaging to o ce paper. • In 2015, the United States recoveredmore than 52million tons of paper; that’s 335 lbs. of paper for every person in the country. • Recycling one ton of paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of land ll space.

A factory uses the cardboard to makeboxes for packagingnew products.

Oldnewspapers arebundled, tiedand sold to scrappaper recyclers.

Recovered Paper

The recycler presses the newspaper into

Thepulp is used tomake thenew cardboard sheets.

hugebales, containing about1000 newspapers.

Thebalesare sent toapaper millwhere they aremade into paperpulp.

Source: JASON Learning/ISRI

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