secretariat note:
activity report of the working GROUP on
recovered paper
JACQUES LAHAUSSOIS
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
A working group was established in October 2000 and consisted of ten members (see Annex 1 for list of members). The purpose of the Working Group was to review FAO's activities on recovered paper and more particularly:
- review definitions and classifications;
- review
the process of statistics collection and presentation;
- assess if any other
activities which should be undertaken in this sector.
In view of the magnitude of the work and the little time available, it was agreed by the members to address first the review of definitions and classifications.
All members were contacted to collect definitions and classifications used in their respective countries. The first observation was that ratios used to define recovery rate and recovered paper utilization by different organizations were basically the same in spite of different titles. The second observation was that there was not a common figure between data prepared by Eurostat and by FAO on recovered paper.
The working group recommended that the following proposal be submitted to the FAO Advisory Committee on Paper and Wood Products for approval:
- change title and definition of ratios as shown in
Annex 2;
- add a new grade of recovered paper to provide a common figure with Eurostat, as follows:
Recovered paper for paper and paperboard production: used paper collected for recovery as raw material for the manufacture of paper and paperboard.
See Annex 3 for comparison of grades;
- use new ratios in the FAO Recovered Paper Data 1999-2000;
- include the new grade in next year's survey, since questionnaires have already been sent out for this year.
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Ms Marie
Arwidson |
Dr Zoltán Szikla
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Mr Ernesto Ronchini Lima |
Mr N.S. Sadawarte |
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Mr David Church |
Mr Kiyoshi Sakai | |
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Mr Jean-Paul Franiatte |
Mr Oscar Alcantara |
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Dr Klaus-Dieter Kibat |
Mr Jacob Handelsman |
Current FAO ratio |
Current definition |
Proposed new FAO ratio |
Proposed new definition |
Waste paper net recovery rate |
Amount of waste paper collected for re-use as a percentage of the adjusted paper and paperboard consumption |
Recovered paper collection rate |
Amount of recovered paper collected for re-use as a percentage of paper and paperboard consumption |
Adjusted waste paper net recovery rate |
Amount of waste paper collected as a percentage of the adjusted paper and paperboard consumption from which the non-recoverable paper and paperboard is deducted |
To be abandoned |
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Recovered paper utilization rate |
Amount of waste paper used for paper and paperboard as a percentage of paper and paperboard production |
Recovered paper utilization rate |
Amount of recovered paper used for paper and paperboard making as a percentage of paper and paperboard production |
Recovered paper in fibre use rate |
Amount of recovered paper used for paper and paperboard as a percentage of the total fibre used for paper and paperboard |
Recovered paper in fibre use rate |
Amount of recovered paper used for paper and paperboard as a percentage of the total fibre used for paper and paperboard |
Name |
Definition |
Comments |
FAO current grades | ||
Waste paper collected for re-use |
Total quantity of waste paper collected from any source of supply, in any form and for any kind of major industrial or commercial uses |
Includes other uses than paper and paperboard manufacturing |
Recovered paper used domestically for paper and paperboard making |
Net quantity of waste paper intake at the mill of any kind of waste paper which is used exclusively in paper and paperboard manufacture |
Measures only intake of recovered paper at paper mills |
Proposed FAO new grade | ||
Recovered paper collected for paper and paperboard production: |
Used paper collected for recovery as raw material for the manufacture of paper and paperboard |
Measures recovered paper collected for re-used for paper and paperboard manufacturing |