Mills that Produce Newsprint Containing Postconsumer Recovered Paper


vvEPA
            United States
            Environmental Protection
            Agency
            Solid Waste
            and Emergency Response
            (5305W)
EPA530-B-98-01S
October 1998
www.epa.gov/cpg
Mills That Produce
Newsprint Containing
Postconsumer
Recovered Paper

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          MILLS THAT PRODUCE NEWSPRINT CONTAINING POSTCONSUMER
                                   RECOVERED PAPER
This list of manufacturers and suppliers of newsprint containing postconsumer recovered fiber was
prepared to facilitate implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) and to assist customers interested in purchasing and using
products containing recovered materials. Some manufacturers provided the names and locations of
regional or local suppliers.

Each listing is based on information provided by the manufacturer. Product information was not verified,
and no guarantee, expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy or completeness of the information
provided. Inclusion in this listing does not represent an endorsement by EPA.

For information on or copies of the CPG, contact EPA's RCRA Hotline at 800 424-9346 or access EPA's
CPG Web site at .

This list contains information on the following products or supplies:

NEWSPRINT

A list of definitions is included.

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                                      NEWSPRINT
Abitibi-Consolidated
Newsprint Division
7373 North Scottsdale Road, Suite C126
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Contact: Julie Snyder
Phone:602951-2412
Fax:602951-3199

Produces recycled newsprint with 70 percent
postconsumer content.
Bowater, Inc.
55 East Camperdown Way
Greenville, SC 29601
Contact: Harry Gear
Phone:864271-7733
Fax: 864 282-9482

Produces newsprint with up to 20 percent
recycled fiber content. Produces directory paper
with up to 40 percent postconsumer content.
Abitibi-Consolidated
504 Ninth Street, North
Kenora,ONP9N3Yl
Canada
Contact: Laurie Robertson
Phone: 807 467-3000
Fax:807467-3009

Produces recycled newsprint with between 20 to
50 percent postconsumer fiber, depending on
customer specifications.
Atlantic Newsprint Company, Ltd.
1900 Thickson Road, South
Wbitby,ONLlN9El
Canada
Contact: Brenda Warrenton
Phone: 905 686-5912
Fax: 905 686-5900

Produces 100 percent recycled content
newsprint, with about 80 percent from old
newsprint and 20 percent from old magazines.
Champion International
Newsprint Division
P.O. Box 23011
Houston, TX 77228-3011
Contact: Amy Schwarzbach
Phone: 281 456-6567
Fax: 281 456-6956

Produces recycled newsprint with 30 percent
postconsumer fiber content.
Daishowa Sales Limited, Inc.
2001 West Main Street, Suite 140
Stamford, CT 06902
Contact: Arthur Miller, Sales Office
Phone: 203 357-7531
Fax: 203 357-7535

Produces recycled newsprint with 30 percent
postconsumer fiber content.

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Donohue Industries, Inc.
500 Sherbrooke Street, West
Eighth Floor
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3C6
Canada
Contact: Justin Roy
Phone:514847-7770
Fax: 514 847-7702

Produces recycled newsprint with between 20 to
80 percent postconsumer fiber content.
Fletcher Challenge Canada, Ltd.
700 West Georgia Street
P.O. Box 10058
Pacific Center
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1S7
Canada
Contact: Peter Tynne
Phone:250287-5414
Fax:604654-4911

Produces recycled content newsprint and
directory papers. The recycled newsprint
contains 40 percent postconsumer fiber, while
their directory paper contains 30 percent
postconsumer fiber.
FSC Paper Company
Newsprint Mill
13101 South Pulaski Road
Alsip, IL 60658
Contact: Bob Moffet
Phone:708389-8520
Fax: 708 389-8237

Produces recycled newsprint made from
100 percent postconsumer fiber.
Garden State Paper Company, Inc.
669 River Drive Center Two
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407-1349
Contact: Dick Tabbachino
Phone: 201 796-0600
Fax:201796-8470

Produces 100 percent recycled content
newsprint with no sulfites. Of this, at least 80 to
85 percent is postconsumer fiber.
Inland Empire Paper Company
3320 North Argonne Road
Spokane, WA 99212-2099
Contact: Glenn Owens
Phone:509924-1911
Fax:509927-8461

Produces 40 percent recovered content
newsprint. Of that, 30 percent is postconsumer
fiber.
James Maclaren Industries, Inc.
(Subsidiary of Northern Forest)
Two Montreal Road, West
Masson-Angers, Quebec J8M 1K6
Canada
Contact: Don Westfall
Phone: 819 986-3345
Fax:819986-1726

Produces recycled newsprint with 20 percent
postconsumer fiber.
Manistique Paper, Inc.
453 South Mackinac Avenue
Manistique, MI 49854
Contact: Customer Service Department
Phone: 906 341-2175
Fax:906341-5635

Produces 100 percent recycled content
newsprint.  Of that, up to 40 percent is
postconsumer fiber.

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 Norel Paper
 223 Gates Road
 Little Ferry, NJ 07643
 Contact: Gary S. Cohen
 Phone: 201 440-4400
 Fax: 201 440-9292

 Produces 100 percent recycled content
 newsprint.  Of that, up to 90 percent is
 postconsumer fiber.
U.S. Alliance
U.S. Pulp and Newsprint Division
17589 Plant Road
Coosa Pines, AL 35044-0555
Contact: Treena Goggins
Phone: 800 633-4084
Fax: 205 378-2150

Produces recycled newsprint containing up to
40 percent postconsumer fiber.
North Pacific Paper
P.O. Box 2069
Longview, WA 98632
Contact: Don Havens
Phone:800426-0866
Fax:360423-1514

Produces two different kinds of recycled content
newsprint, one with 25 percent postconsumer
fiber content and one with 40 percent
postconsumer fiber content.
Smurfit Newsprint Corporation
P.O. Box 2364
Pomona, CA 91769
Contact: Ron Osberg
Phone: 909 623-6601
Fax: 909 397-8355
Southeast Paper Manufacturing Company
1800 Parkway Place, Suite 1020
Marietta, GA 30067
Contact: G.B. DeLashmet
Phone: 770 919-7502
Fax: 770 919-7523

Produces recycled newsprint that contains
100 percent postconsumer fiber from old
newspapers.

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DEFINITIONS
FIBER
A thread-like body or filament many times longer than its diameter. Paper pulps are composed of
cellulose fibers, usually of vegetable origin, such as woods and grasses.

GROUNDWOOD PAPER
Any paper that is made from a furnish containing a large percentage of mechanical pulp.

INTEGRATED MILL
A paper mill that manufactures its own pulp.

NEWSPRINT
A grade of paper made especially for use in the printing of newspapers. Newsprint is the most
inexpensive paper available that will withstand printing and contains mostly mechanical (groundwood)
pulp.

MECHANICAL (OR GROUNDWOOD) PULP
Pulp produced by reducing pulpwood logs and chips into their fiber components by the use of mechanical
energy, via grinding stones, refiners, etc.

POSTCONSUMER FIBER
Paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from retail stores, office buildings, homes, and so forth, after they
have passed through their end-usage as a consumer item; and all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes
that enter and are collected from municipal solid waste.

RECOVERED FIBER
All postconsumer fiber and manufacturing wastes, such as dry paper and paperboard, generated after
completion of the papermaking process; and repulped finished paper and paperboard from obsolete
inventories of paper and paperboard manufacturers, merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers, converters,
or others.

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