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In 200 BCE, China made the world's first piece of paper from recycled fishing nets.
Paper recycling has been around since paper itself.
Paper recycling is a popular way to help protect our environment.
Recycled paper has improved tremendously since the early 1980s when recycling became popular.
Today, recycled papers can compete with new-wood fiber (virgin) papers in the categories of brightness, appearance and functionality.
The paper industry has invested millions of dollars to make first-class recycled paper.
Papers made with 30% and 100% post-consumer recycled fiber can perform just as well in printing equipment as virgin-fiber paper.

Staples offers more than 2,800 products with recycled content, from 100% recycled copy paper to recycled file folders to remanufactured inkjet cartridges. Recycled Products
You can buy recycled content products from our stores, our catalogs or Staples.com®.
In addition, Staples makes it easy for customers to recycle through our in-store recycling programs for cell phones, PDAs, pagers, and rechargeable batteries as well as for inkjet and laser toner cartridges. With InkDropsm, we'll recycle your old cartridge and send you new one.

Recycling: a series of activities by which discarded materials are collected, sorted, processed, and used in making new products.
Pre-consumer: recovered paper consisting of trimmings and scraps from printing and other converting processes, and is reused to make pulp without reaching the end consumer.
Post-consumer: recovered paper that has been used by the consumer and is then returned to the mill for recycling.

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