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Recycled paper terms:
Post-Consumer Material (PCW) - Waste paper that has served its intended purpose and has been separated from solid waste to be recycled into new paper. This is what you and I take to the recycling center.
Process chlorine free (PCF) - Recycled paper processed back into paper using no chlorine or chlorine derivatives. The waste paper being recycled was most likely made with chlorine the first time around. This method melds the ability to use our waste paper with processing that is chlorine free. PCF eliminates dioxins from paper mill effluent.
Totally chlorine free (TCF) - No chlorine or chlorine derivatives used to make the paper, which means the paper must come from virgin (new) fiber.
Elementally chlorine free (ECF) - No chlorine gas, but other chemicals containing chlorine are used for bleaching. ECF paper is often misrepresented as TCF.
De-Inked Material - Waste paper that has had the ink, filler, coatings, etc. removed as a step in the production of recycled paper. This includes magazines and newspapers that were printed but never sold.
Recovered, Pre-consumer, and Wastepaper - These are ambiguous
terms which have little consistency in definition...often refers
to non-wastestream materials such as mill broke, other mill wastes,
and wood chips.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) - FSC is an international
not-for-profit membership-based organization that brings people
together to find solutions to the problems created by bad forestry
practices and to reward good forest management. Learn
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