Sayid Paper Mills

1	RECYCLED PAPER	A paper product containing those percentages of post consumer material and/or recycled fiber categories required by specifications and so labeled. Currently, there is no agreement on what the term "recycled paper" means, beyond the fact that it contains recovered fiber (which may be pre consumer and/or post consumer). You should establish strong post consumer standards in your specifications and ensure that suppliers meet those standards. You must also question what others mean by "recycled paper" unless the post consumer content is clearly labeled.
2	POSTCONSUMER MATERIAL	Those end product products generated by consumers that have been separated or diverted from the solid waste stream. The critical words here are "end products" and "consumers." Products, scraps and materials still in the production or value-added process do not qualify. Examples that do qualify include office wastepaper, junk mail and magazines from people's homes, undeliverable mail, office wastepaper, and shipping packaging from delivered products.
3	END PRODUCT	An item having completed the manufacturing or converting process and distributed or sold to a consumer for other than resale or manufacture of other goods.
4	CONSUMER	Any person, government agency or other entity which uses goods for its own needs, and not for resale or for manufacture of other goods.
5	RECOVERED MATERIAL	Paper materials, excluding mill broke, that have been separated, diverted, or removed from the solid waste stream for the purpose of use, reuse or recycling. This term refers to the universe of materials that count as recycled content, both pre consumer and post consumer. It is consistent with general recycling definition, which includes all materials produced after the initial papermaking process. Despite allowing inclusion of large amounts of scraps that may never have left the mill, it is consistent with the practical reality of how mills make their paper. The statistics offices of some countries include mill broke in their statistics on recovered materials
6	MILL BROKE	Any paper or paperboard scrap generated in a mill prior to completion of the manufacturing process which is unsuitable for subsequent applications but can be re-used in the paper manufacturing process. Mill broke is not counted as recycled or recovered material. Originally, "mill broke" referred to all the scrap in a mill. Economic viability ensured that mills reused it in making new paper. EPA in the United States defines mill broke as being only that portion of scraps produced in the initial paper manufacturing process. The amount of paper scrap in a mill that counts towards recycled content percentages can be quite large, particularly if the mill also sheets its paper.
7	PULP SUBSTITUTES	Fiber derived from recovered material (5), excluding mill converting scraps (10), which has not been printed and does not contain inks, coatings, adhesives, or dyes (excluding whitening or blueing dyes or agents). Examples: envelope cuttings, tabulating cards, and other types of post-mill converting wastes.
9	PAPER MANUFACTURING PROCESS	An operation which begins with the pulping of fibrous and non-fibrous raw materials and ends after the first slitter/winder with the cutting and trimming of the reel into smaller rolls. In an operation A) in which the finished product is sheeted directly off the machine, the production of rough sheets constitutes the end of the process; B) which involves super calendaring, the end of the process is at the slitter/winder following the super calendar; and C) which involves off-machine coating, the process ends at the slitter/winder following the coater or the super calendar associated with the coater.
9	PRECONSUMER MATERIALS	Recovered materials (5) other than post consumer material (2). Pre consumer materials have not met their intended end-use by a consumer, and include allowable waste left over from manufacturing, converting and printing processes. Examples: mill converting scraps, pre consumer deinking material, pulp substitutes.
10	MILL CONVERTING SCRAPS	Any paper generated in a paper mill after completion of the paper manufacturing process (8), excluding mill broke, which is unsuitable for subsequent applications but can be re-used in the paper manufacturing process. Example: scraps left over from sheeting operations in a mill.
11	DEINKING FIBER	Fiber derived from recovered material, excluding mill converting scraps, which has been printed and/or contains inks, coatings, adhesives, or dyes (excluding whitening or blueing dyes or agents). There is both pre consumer and post consumer deinking fiber. Examples of pre consumer: printing scraps and unsold ("over issue") magazines.
12	RECYCLED FIBER	Fiber derived from recovered material which is included in the fiber finish of an end product
14	RENEWABLE	A term proposed by the paper industry for virgin paper made from "renewable resources" such as managed tree plantations. Does not ensure environmentally sound paper.
15	SOURCE REDUCTION	A product or process that results in a net reduction in the generation of waste compared to the previous or comparable version, and includes durable, reusable and remanufactured products; products with no, or reduced, toxic constituents; and products marketed with no, or reduced, packaging.
16	WASTEPAPER	A term, including both pre consumer and post consumer materials, introduced in the original 1988 recycled paper guidelines in he USA. Its use in standards allowed papers with no post consumer content, even made with mill scraps only, to be called "recycled." EPA eliminated standards using wastepaper percentages in its May 1996 revised paper guidelines, but retained the term as the underlying basis for its definition of "recovered fiber."