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U.S. waste paper recycling rate will reach 65.7% in 2020, OCC recycling rate will be 88.8%

2021-05-21

On May 19, the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) announced that 65.7% of the paper consumed in the United States in 2020 will be recycled. Over the past ten years, the United States has maintained a high recycling rate of waste paper. Since 2009, the recycling rate of waste paper has reached or exceeded 63%, which is almost twice that of the United States in 1990.

In 2020, the consumption of waste containerboard corrugated paper (OCC) in the United States reached a record 22.8 million tons, the OCC recovery rate reached 88.8%, and the average recovery rate in the past three years was 92.4%.

Heidi Brock, President and CEO of AF&PA, said: “In the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly two-thirds of waste paper has been recycled to produce new paper products.”

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