How does a printer or publisher determine if it has met the 50 percent RCN usage requirement?
In completing Section II of the Newsprint Consumer Certification, form 430 (MS Word, 195 KB), a consumer will calculate if it has met this requirement. Specifically, a consumer reports the total newsprint used during the year including the subtotals of RCN and non-RCN, and then calculates the percentage of RCN used by dividing the RCN tonnage by the total newsprint tonnage (i.e., RCN / (RCN + non-RCN)). Note that in the certification, consumers report the total metric tonnage of newsprint in each category, not the weight of the postconsumer fiber in that tonnage. So, per the program definitions, “RCN” is newsprint with at least 40 percent recycled fiber content, and “non-RCN” is newsprint with 0–39 percent recycled content. For example, a publisher uses 250 metric tons of newsprint with 12 percent postconsumer wastepaper fiber content, 400 metric tons of newsprint with 45 percent postconsumer wastepaper fiber, 300 tons of newsprint with 100 percent postconsumer wastepaper fiber, and 50
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