Policy Issues
The 100% recycled paperboard industry is primarily concerned about public policies that would affect the amount of recovered paper available to our mills or the quality of that paper (e.g. contamination levels).
The Paper Recycling Coalition educates policy leaders, regulators, Members of Congress and their staffs, and others about the impact of various policies on the 100% recycled paperboard industry. We also work closely with the environmental community other industry organizations to advise them of our industry's interests and concerns.
Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims
Green Guides
The Environmental Marketing Guides indicate how the FTC will apply Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTC Act”), which prohibits unfair or deceptive advertising claims, in the area of environmental marketing claims. The guides apply to all forms of marketing of products to the public, whether through advertisements, labels, package inserts, or [...]
Keeping Recycled Paper Clean
Because we are making high-quality packaging out of the paper you recycle, we need that paper to be clean. Recycled paper is not trash – it is the raw material that runs our industry. When the paper we receive at our mills is heavily contaminated, we cannot use it.
Our state-of-the-art mills can remove small amounts [...]
Increasing Paper Collection for Recycling
The 100% recycled paperboard industry needs all of the clean, recycled paper it can get and that means we need Americans to recycle more paper at home and at work. This supply issue is at the heart of our industry’s survival.
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How Recycling Paper Fights Global Warming
Global climate change may have significant environmental and economic consequences for the U.S. and other nations.
For every ton of recovered paper that is converted into new recycled paperboard for packaging and other end uses, 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions are eliminated.
Recycling paper reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming in [...]
The Definition of Solid Waste
Recovered fiber should not be regulated as a solid waste.
The Issue
Regulations meant to manage how garbage, or solid waste, is handled are often applied to recyclable materials, including recovered fiber.
Our Position
Materials recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream for recycling, including recovered fiber, are not solid waste.
Our Approach
A bale of recycled corrugated boxes going [...]