Why is some recycled paper more expensive that conventional paper?
A number of economic factors affect the price of recycled paper in comparison to other papers. In fact, as a rule, the higher the quality of the paper, the greater the saving by buying the recycled version. The greatest disparity in price is in copier paper, and it is unfortunate that this is what most people notice, and so think it to be the general rule. The big paper companies all see office papers as the biggest market sector, and so concentrate all their efforts to increase their share of it. The resultant competition is fierce, so driving prices down to a level at which profitability disappears. The market for other types of papers is not so price-sensitive, and the big companies use this to offset the low prices in the office sector. This is where recycled paper scores, because with lower input costs and similar volumes of production to its competitors in this sector, it really does offer a cost saving in the majority of cases.
