{"id":1403,"date":"2024-08-26T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2024-09-25T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:54:39","slug":"paper-is-recycled-more-than-any-other-material-in-the-us-municipal-solid-waste-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Paper is recycled more than any other material in the US municipal solid waste stream."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #b58a68;\"><em><strong>In 2022, 68% of paper and paper-based packaging in the U.S. was recovered for recycling. The recycling rate for cardboard, what the industry calls corrugated, was 93.6%.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the most recent government data available, paper and paper packaging is recycled more than any other material in the U.S. municipal solid waste stream, including plastics (8.7%), glass (25%) and metals (34.1%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paper recycling extends the supply of a valuable natural resource (wood fiber), saves landfill space, and avoids greenhouse gas emissions (methane) that are released when paper decomposes in landfills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2022, 40.5% of the paper collected for recycling in the United States was used to produce containerboard (i.e. corrugated boxes), 12.7% to produce boxboard (folding boxes like cereal or medicine boxes, and gypsum wallboard, i.e. drywall\/ facings.), 7.8% for tissue and 5.3% for other paper grades. Net exports accounted for 33.7%, the same as in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">61% of U.S. consumers surveyed believe only recycled paper should be used to make new paper products.[4] However, this is not possible because fresh wood fiber from sustainably managed forests is essential to sustain a viable paper industry. Recycled fiber would not exist without harvesting fresh fiber.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">94% of Americans have access to community paper recycling programs, and 79% of Americans have access to residential-curbside recycling programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. paper industry continues to demonstrate recycling leadership, voluntarily investing nearly $7 billion in projects from 2019 through 2025 to use approximately 9 million additional tons of recovered fiber.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, 68% of paper and paper-based packaging in the U.S. was recovered for recycling. The recycling rate for cardboard, what the industry calls corrugated, was 93.6%. According to the most recent government data available, paper and paper packaging is recycled more than any other material in the U.S. municipal solid waste stream, including plastics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-feature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corrugman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}