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Recycled papers help reduce the amount of paper in our landfills; they’re readily available and generally derived from two sources:

• Post-Consumer Waste, recovered papers that have served their original purpose and require de-inking, bleaching and other processing to be used again, and;

• Pre-Consumer Waste, recovered paper that has never reached the consumer, like trim waste and residual rolls from a printer.

Expect to pay approximately 10 percent more for recycled papers due to the cost of the recycling equipment necessary to recapture post-consumer waste. The good news is that paper can be recycled numerous times until the elemental fibers break down to the point where they are no longer solid.