Successful recycling requires clean
recovered paper, so you must keep your paper free
from contaminants, such as food, plastic, metal, and
other trash, which make paper difficult to recycle.
Contaminated paper which cannot be recycled must be
composted, burned for energy, or landfilled.
Recycling centers usually ask that
you sort your paper by grade, or type of paper.
Your local recycling center can tell you how to
sort paper for recycling in your community. To locate
your nearest dealer, look in the yellow pages of
your phone book under "waste paper" or
You may take your sorted paper to a local recycling
center or recycling bin. Often, a paper stock dealer
or recycling center will collect recovered paper
from your home or office. Your local dealer can
tell you the options available in your community.
At the recycling center, the collected
paper is wrapped in tight bales and transported
to a paper mill, where it will be recycled into