What is post-consumer recycled content?
If you examine a recycled product label you may read 50% recycled with 20% post-consumer content. Post-consumer is the key. It means that you or I have actually used that material, it was collected, and made into the new product. Industries have been recycling scrap from their processing lines for years. Paper cuttings, the ends of runs, sawdust, all of this is reused and recycled by industry which makes good business sense. However, this material never made it into the waste stream in the first place and remember our goal is TO REDUCE.
