This FAO survey on "Recovered Paper Data, 1999-2000" follows the same format as last year. It was produced, as last year, in co-operation with the Confederation of European Paper Industry (CEPI) which supplied the necessary data relevant to its member countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom) and its associate members (Czech Republic, Hungary, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland). FAO collected data for the other countries.
As last year, with the concurrence of the FAO Advisory Committee on Paper and Wood Products, the two questions on the use of recovered paper for energy generation and on market de-inked pulp were eliminated, as well as the one concerning non-recoverable paper and paperboard.
The survey presents data on recovery, trade, and utilization of recovered paper. Historical data for the period 1999-2000 is presented and only a some (ten) countries provided projections of recovery and use of recovered paper for the years 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. The ratios used to analyse the data are the ones recommended by the Sub-group on Waste Paper Terminology, and are defined later in this document.
Appendix 1 contains a sample of the questionnaires, which FAO sent to 46 countries.
In addition to the 19 countries covered by CEPI, 15[1] others answered the questionnaires. All of these 34 countries represent over 80 percent of the world paper and paperboard production, and the data presented can be considered representative of the recovery, use and trade of recovered paper in the world.
