Welcome to the Paper Recycling Association of South Africa

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Benefits From Increasing Paper Recovery Rate

• Plantation trees, from which paper is made, help to absorb carbon dioxide from and release oxygen into the atmosphere. The trees, and thus paper and wood products, store this carbon as solid matter. By recycling paper, we can ensure that this carbon is kept out of the atmosphere for longer. If you do not recycle, paper will rot among other rubbish and emit gases such as methane and carbon dioxide.
• By recycling, you contribute to less pollution and litter thus creating a healthier, greener and cleaner society.
• Paper can be recycled at least seven times. New wood fibre from new timber is thus required to keep the paper cycle going.
• Recycling paper can save up to three square metres of landfill space per ton and subsequently reduce transport costs for local municipalities.
• In 2011,  paper recovery in South Africa was approximately 59.5% – that is of available paper i.e. paper that can be recycled (Paper such as toilet tissue, wax paper etc cannot be recycled).
• With 65% of recovered paper used as raw material in paper mills, more than half of the country’s paper mills depend on recycled fibre and many of them use it as their only fibre source.
• As with the pulp and paper manufacturing industry, paper recycling creates employment and economic empowerment opportunities.