What is the Difference Between Post Consumer and Recycled Paper ?
Mazyar Ekbatani – Monday, June 28, 2010 In order to understand the difference between post consumer and recycled paper, we can begin by first understanding the paper making process. There are 3 major steps involved in making paper: 1) Conversion of cellulose fibre that is in wood or recovered paper into usable fibres to produce pulp 2) Since most papers are white, the produced pulp is bleached to brighten it 3) Finally, the resulting pulp is turned into paper These have been the basic steps in producing paper from plants that contain fibre, however, due to many performance specifications such as colour, texture of the finishing surface, heat exposure tolerance, stretch or expandability among many other requirements, the produced pulp goes through many other steps and is exposed to various chemicals. Depending of their specifications, various types of papers have specific production processes that consume huge amount of energy, chemicals as well as water and produce large volumes of tox
