What products are made from recycled newspaper?
Recycled newspaper is reprocessed into newsprint and wrapping paper, manufactured into molded packaging, shredded and fire-proofing added for blown-in cellulose insulation or manufactured into sheet rock surfacing. How much energy is saved by recycling newspaper? Recycling one ton of newspaper saves three tons of wood pulp. It saves the equivalent of 3,000 kilowatt hours of electricity or 23% of the energy required to process a ton of newsprint from new pulp. Cardboard How is recovered cardboard processed into a useful product? Corrugated cardboard is pulped and blended with new pulp from wood chips. The pulp is screened, rolled, and dried into two types of cardboard called medium (the ribbed inner layer) and linerboard (the smooth outer layers). Both are sold to a boxboard plant to be formed into new corrugated cardboard. What products are made from recycled cardboard? Recycled cardboard is manufactured into medium, linerboard, and paper for brown paper bags. How much energy is saved
