True
or False?
- Recycling can save communities money.
T or F
- More plastic packaging is recovered
for recycling than paper packaging. T or F
- Old corrugated boxes can be recycled. T or F
- Post-consumer paper is paper which
has been used by consumers. T or F
- Only half of the states in the U.S.
have mills that recycle. T or F
- It is possible to recycle 100 percent
of the paper we use. T or F
- More paper is sent to landfills in
the U.S. than is recovered. T or F
- Thirty-five percent of the fiber
used in U.S. mills comes from recovered paper. T or F
- Wood fibers can be recycled indefinitely. T or F
- There are more trees in the U.S.
today than there were 75 years ago. T or F
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Sources:
Focus 95+ Proceedings,
TAPPI PRESS
Packaging in America in the 1990s, Institute of Packaging
Professionals
Secondary Fiber Recycling, TAPPI PRESS
American Forest & Paper Association
