Waste Paper use in the Community as Seen by the Paper Industry

Abstract

Only some 75 per cent of the Community’s paper consumption is covered by its own paper industry, which is heavily dependent on imported raw and semi-processed materials (roughly 1/3). Waste paper is by far and away (57 per cent) the most important “indigenous” raw material. The use of 10.1 million tonnes of waste paper in the production of 23.3 milliot tonnes of paper means a use rate of 43.1 per cent.