On May 13, 2020, the American Forest and Paper Association (AF & PA) announced that 66.2% of the paper consumed in the United States will be recycled in 2019. In 2019, the recovery rate of old corrugated boxes (OOC) was 92%, and the average three-year OOC recovery rate was 92.3%. The abstract is available at www.printingnews.com.
 

As a factory in China that has focused on paper printing for 17 years, we ensure that the boxes we manufacture are 100% recyclable, so why is the actual paper recycling rate still so low? Including China, the paper recycling rate is currently difficult to exceed 90%, what is the root cause?

The China Paper Association reported that China ’s waste paper recycling rate is much lower than in some countries because of the impact of China ’s economic structure. China is a large manufacturing country, and exports a large number of electromechanical and light textile products every year. A large number of packaging papers, instruction manuals and labels are brought along with the products. The difference in the structure of imported and exported products has resulted in a paper recycling gap of about 20 million tons per year, coupled with non-recyclable living, industrial and agricultural and inconvenient recycling of only products, resulting in a total paper recycling rate of nearly 90% in China .www.chinapaer.net
 

Compared with the same period last year, the US manufacturing industry is lower than China, and the paper carried by import and export products is positive every year. Therefore, the paper recycling rate in the United States can reach 92.3% for two reasons: First, the economic structure of the United States facilitates paper recycling. Second, the American citizens have implemented the paper recycling policy very well.
 

In order to protect the environment in which everyone lives, we call on everyone here.
1. The manufacturing industry must ensure that printed paper is 100% recyclable.
2. Regardless of whether the country attaches great importance to the recovery of waste paper, we must have a good sense of doing this well.
3. The country has continuous statistics on the weight of imported and exported paper, so that we can increase the paper recycling rate according to the actual situation.