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  • Building a Viable Recycling Infrastructure for Discarded Printing and Writing Paper - Grant
  • Building a Viable Recycling Infrastructure for Discarded Printing and Writing Paper - Grant

    Providing recycling services to small businesses is often prohibitively expensive, due to the small amount of material they generate. And yet, paper industry representatives are concerned about the long term supply of recovered fiber to fuel U.S. mills. To address this need, NERC, in partnership with several organizations in New England piloted several approaches to encourage small businesses to expand paper recycling efforts.

    One innovative model was the small business recycling consortium, demonstrated by the Center for Ecological Technology and WasteCap organizations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Also as part of the project, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection worked with several municipalities to offer a variety of drop-off and pick-up recycling services to small businesses. And, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management piloted a program to optimize recycling by state offices throughout that state.

    In order to disseminate the results of these pilot projects, NERC held a workshop in Orlando, Florida, in conjunction with the 1997 National Recycling Congress and Exposition. NERC also produced a manual, Implementation Guide for Small Business Recycling Cooperatives. The project was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, through the President's Climate Change Action Plan. Additional funding was provided by the American Forest and Paper Association.

     

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