Ive heard that recycled papers aren as good quality as virgin fiber papers – is that true?
• The quality of recycled paper and environmentally preferable printing processes has improved dramatically in recent years. Modern deinking technology produces high performance recycled paper that meets the same technical specifications as virgin papers. Therefore, the notion that virgin-fiber paper is of better quality than recycled paper is just another myth. Ecopaper products are available in a wide variety of brightness, opacity, and smoothness levels, satisfying all publishers’ needs. Just about all paper companies produce some papers with post-consumer recycled content. Magazines on the market today with recycled content range from 30- and 40-percent post-consumer recycled content to as much as 100% post-consumer recycled content and look great. Publications that rely on superior quality paper are increasingly using recycled products, and as publisher testimonials indicate, the result has been positive. The “usual suspects” such as Utne, Mother Jones, and Earth Island Journal ar
