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THE I SR I SCRAP YEARBOOK
2016
INSTITUTE OF SCRAP RECYCLING INDUSTRIES, INC.
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Source: JASON Learning/ISRI
Yournew
computerarrives
packed inabox
made from this
recyclingprocess.
START
Today’s
newspaperscan
be recycled into
tomorrow’s
cardboardboxes.
Oldnewspapers
arebundled,
tiedand sold to
scrappaper
recyclers.
The recycler
presses the
newspaper into
hugebales,
containing
about1000
newspapers.
Thebalesare
sent toapaper
millwhere they
aremade into
paperpulp.
Thepulp is
used tomake
thenew
cardboard
sheets.
A factory
uses the
cardboard to
makeboxes for
packagingnew
products.
Recovered
Paper
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.