That s due to the cooperation of millions of Americans who begin the recycling process by separating their used paper at home, school, and work and to a commitment by U.S. papermakers to invest billions of dollars in new recycling capacity. The results are impressive. American used was recovered 47.3 million tons, an all-time record. But while much progress has been made, there is still more to be done. We hope it serves to propel U.S. paper recycling to even greater heights.
More paper is recovered in America for recycling than all other materials combined.
More than one third of the raw material fiber U.S. papermakers use comes from recycled paper. More paper is now recovered in America than is landfilled. The paper recovered for recycling in the past 10 years would fill more than 3.5 square miles of landfill space packed 50 feet high.