Current Analysis on the Collection and Use of Recovered Paper and the Proposal of Paper Recycling Promotion to the Target “Recycle 56” in 2000

Abstract

Recovered paper has been collected and used as a raw material for paper industry according to the demand and supply so far. It is very difficult to be balanced of the demand and supply because it is not a product though recovered paper is a generation material. Recovered paper has been collected according to an economic principle. Recently, a social change such as citizens' recycling mind spread and expand, occurs aiming at the construction of the recycling society. In addition, the local government has positively worked on the collection of recovered paper as a garbage loss in weight. As a result, recovered paper came to be collected regardless with an economic principle and the demand and supply of it. A surplus problem of recovered paper occurred from this.
It is reported on the cause and measures of recovered paper surplus problem, recovered paper use to usage in many fields (sleeping bed for animal, alternative material of cover soil used in disposal), the necessity of RPF (Refuse Paper and Plastic Fuel) which is solid fuel as thermal recycling, and the calculation result of using of recovered paper for achievement of recovered paper utilization rate 56% in 2000 (fiscal year). It is proposed to the lack of recovered paper that the improvement of the recovered paper recovery rate as basis, using insufficient recovered paper properly, the expansion use of old magazines for printing and writing paper by the improvement of the technology, and the improvement of the recovery rate of the sorted office paper, are important as the counter method.