People frequently ask me: “Can I recycle this?” When it comes to the forest products industry, there is good news – paper and paper-based packaging are widely recyclable and highly recycled. In the United States, we have a long track record of achieving a consistently high recycling rate for paper, meeting or exceeding 63% for more than a decade (the...

Every year, the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) releases the U.S. paper recovery for recycling rate. The annual figure informs us how much recovered paper is being used to create new products in a given year and is also an important indicator of how much paper and paper-based packaging is kept out of landfills after use. In 2018, the...