Paper
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) shared a new report indicating that the most Americans, 94 percent, have access to community paper recycling programs.
The 2021 AF&PA Access to Recycling Study also finds more Americans, 79 percent, now have access to residential-curbside programs making it easier to recycle paper at home – an increase of more than 14 million people since the 2014 study.
Items such as corrugated cardboard, mail, newspapers, office paper, magazines, paperboard boxes with and without poly coatings, paper bags, liquid packaging cartons and pizza boxes have a consumer access rate of 60 percent or more.
The 2021 AF&PA Access to Recycling Study is a comprehensive national report that tracks and measures the growth of consumer access to community paper and paperboard recycling in the U.S. It is the latest in a series commissioned by AF&PA and conducted since 1994.
Published in the February 2023 Edition
