22 results about "Paper recycling" patented technology

The recycling of paper is the process by which waste paper is turned into new paper products. It has a number of important benefits: It saves waste paper from occupying landfill and producing methane as it breaks down. Because paper fibre contains carbon (originally absorbed by the tree from which is was produced), recycling keeps the carbon locked up for longer and out of the atmosphere. Around two thirds of all paper products in the US are now recovered and recycled, although it does not all become new paper. After repeated processing the fibres become too short for the production of new paper - this is why virgin fibre (from sustainably farmed trees) will be added to the pulp recipe.