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Worldwide, the pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy and uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry.

Pulp extraction consumes large amounts of energy and can involve dangerous chemicals like dioxin. Paper production results in the emission of the nutrient phosphorus. That, in turn, boosts plant growth, which can use up all the oxygen in the water and kill any animal life.
Even after paper is made, its use damages the environment. Trucking paper from where it’s made to where it’s used generates air pollution. And making and using ink and toner also harm the environment, by contaminating water, poisoning soil and destroying the natural habitats of wildlife.

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How Many Times Can the Same Paper Be Recycled?

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How Many Times Can the Same Paper Be Recycled?

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Paper recycling does have limits. Every time paper is recycled, the fiber becomes shorter, weaker and more brittle. In general, paper can be recycled up to seven times before it must be discarded.

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Paper recycling has been around for a long time. Actually, when you think about it, paper has been a recycled product from the very beginning. For the first 1,800 years or so that paper existed, it was always made from discarded materials.

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It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes.
Paper is predominantly cellulose, one of the most important polysaccharides.
The glucose connected with other glucose creates chains held together by hydrogen bonds. This originates as a crystalline substance and hydrophobic. This to be then transformed into hydrophilic cellulose must be subjected to a mercerization process.

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it is a source of renewable energy at the end of its life

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it is biodegradable and can be recycled

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it is made from a renewable and increasing forest resource

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Recycled Paper in Europe:
50% from trade and industry
40% from households
10% from offices

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Find out how the paper products you love get made and recycled

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Non-recyclable paper is burned in incinerators along with undifferentiated garbage.

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1. Recycling paper conserves natural resources, saves energy, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and keeps landfill space free for other types of trash that can't be recycled. Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4,000 kilowatts of energy-enough to power the average U.S. home for six months- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by one metric ton of carbon equivalent (MTCE).

2. The cost of recycled raw material is considerably lower than that of wood pulp, its waste can be used as Vapor co-generator fuel necessary for the manufacturing process, and production is less polluting;

3.  Recycling reduces the amount of waste to be treated, the associated storage costs, the waste of space to be allocated to storage, pollution from incineration, and obviously the consumption of live trees (even though the trees used for the production of paper come from nurseries for programmed cultivation where they are periodically cut and ripened).

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Collection:
The collection of used paper and board is the first step in the recycling process. There are different national and regional collection systems for paper.

Separation:
Paper for recycling has to be collected separately from other materials. It is important that it is kept separate from other waste as contaminated papers are not acceptable for recycling. If, in some cases, paper is collected together with other recyclable materials, such recovered paper must be specifically marked.

Pulping:
As a first step, recovered paper is sorted and graded then delivered to a paper mill. Having reached the paper mill, it is 'slushed' into pulp and large non-fibrous contaminants are removed (for example staples, plastic, glass etc.). The fibres are progressively cleaned and the resulting pulp is filtered and screened a number of times to make it suitable for papermaking.

De-inking:
The fibres are then progressively cleaned in order to obtain the pulp and during this stage the ink is removed in a flotation process where air is blown into the solution. The ink adheres to bubbles of air and rises to the surface from where it is separated. After the ink is removed, the fibre may be bleached, usually with hydrogen peroxide.

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All non-cellulosic materials, hazardous waste containers, synthetic papers, photographic papers and any kind of paper, cardboard and cardboard that has been dirty (eg paper, oiled paper and paperboard, used paper handkerchiefs, dirty paper napkins Food, plastified paper, detergent dumplings).

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- newspapers, magazines, books, comics, all commercial printing (dépliant, folding advertising)
- Bags for food, bread or fruit
- paper bags with handles
- paper sheets of all types and sizes
- food containers (such as pasta, rice, corn flakes, etc.)
- cardboard tapes of products such as preserves, yoghurt and drinks
- the shoe boxes
- Large and small packs of products such as detergents for washing machines and dishwashers
- the boxes of medicines, toothpaste, etc.
- corrugated cardboard packaging of any shape or size (for example, for television sets or household appliances)
- Cartons for fruits and vegetables
- Beverage cartons (such as those of milk, fruit juices, wine, cream and the like) emptied, rinsed and flattened