What is the difference between post consumer recycled paper and pre-consumer recycled paper?
The paper you put in your recycling box and send to a recycling plant becomes post-consumer recycled paper. Pre consumer recycled paper is paper waste that is leftover from the production of paper products. Pre-consumer recycled paper has not yet been ‘consumed’. It still came from a tree that was recently cut down. Instead of just throwing out this paper it becomes used.