AbitibiBowater is focused on increasing the recovery of newspapers and magazines to meet the rising demand for recycled content products. This effort not only enables our customers to meet recycled fiber standards; it also provides environmental benefits by reducing deposits to solid waste landfills.
- AbitibiBowater is among the largest recyclers of newspapers and magazines in the world.
- In 2006, 14 of the company's paper mills recycled nearly 2.8 million metric tons of newspapers, magazines and telephone directories, diverting them from landfills. That's more than 150,000 tractor trailer loads—enough to create a line-up stretching from Atlanta to Los Angeles!
- Our use of recovered fiber is achieved through a combination of community drop-off containers, partnerships with municipalities, recycling programs with businesses and commercial offices, and brokerage purchases.
- The average fiber yield in our recycling facilities is 82%: this means that more than four out of every five tons of newspapers and magazines delivered to our recycling operations are recovered for re-use in our products.
- Our recycled fiber content in newsprint averages 36%.
- We produce more than 40 grades with recycled content.
- In 2006, our Paper Retriever Program contributed close to $5 million to participating community organizations in North America and the U.K. for the paper they collected.
- AbitibiBowater supplements collection from its Paper Retriever and Paper Bank systems by providing curbside collection to over 2.2 million homes in the U.K..
Learn about our Paper Retriever Program.