#3 Mixed Paper

Consists of a baled clean, sorted mixture of various qualities of paper not limited to type of baling or fiber content.

Prohibited materials may not exceed 2%

Total out throws may not exceed 10%

#8 Deinking News

Consists of sorted, fresh newspapers. This material is not sunburned, free from magazines, white bank, pressroom over-issues and paper other than news, containing no more than the normal percentage of rotogravure and colored sections. This grade must be tare free.

Prohibited materials are not permitted

Total out throws may not exceed 1%

#9 Over-issued News

Consists of unused, overrun newspapers printed on news print, containing no more than the normal percentage of rotogravure and colored section.

Prohibited materials are not permitted

Total out throws are not permitted

#11 Corrugated Containers (OCC)

Consists of baled, corrugated containers having liners of either test liner, jute or kraft.

Prohibited materials may not exceed 1%

Total out throws may not exceed 5%

#12 Double-Sorted Corrugated (DSOCC)

Consists of baled, double-sided corrugated containers generated from supermarkets and/or industrial or commercial facilities having liner or test liner, jute, or kraft.

Material has been specially sorted to be free of boxboard, off-shore corrugated, plastic, and wax.

Prohibited materials may not exceed 1%

Total out throws may not exceed 2%

#13 Double Liner Kraft (DLK)

Consists of baled new corrugated cutting which has liners of either test liner, jute, or kraft.

Treated mediums or liners, insoluble adhesives, butt rolls, and slabbed of hog medium are not acceptable in this grade.

Prohibited materials are not permitted

Total out throws may not exceed 2%

#56 Sorted Residential Paper & News (SRPN)

Consists of sorted newspapers, junk mail, magazines, printing and writing papers and other acceptable papers generated from residential programs (such as residential household and apartment collections and drop-off centers) sorted and processed at a recycling facility.

Material should be free of containerboard and brown grades (OCC, Kraft bags, boxboard and Kraft carrier board).

Prohibitive Materials may not exceed 2%

Total out throws may not exceed 3%.

#30 Hard White Shaving (HWS)

Consists of baled shavings or sheets of unprinted, untreated, white, groundwood-free paper.

Prohibited materials are not permitted

Total out throws may not exceed 1%

#37 Sorted Office Paper (SOP)

Consists of baled paper, as typically generated by offices, primarily containing white and colored groundwood-free paper which is free of unbleached fiber.

May include a small percentage of groundwood, computer printouts, and facsimile paper.

Prohibited materials may not exceed 2%

Total out throws may not exceed 5%

#40 Sorted White Ledger (SWL)

Consists of baled, uncoated, printed or unprinted sheets, shavings, guillotined books, and cuttings of white, groundwood-free ledger, bond, writing, and other papers which have similar fiber and filler content.

Prohibited materials may not exceed 1%

Total out throws may not exceed 2%

#41 Manifold White Ledger (MWL)

Consists of baled sheets, shavings, and cutting of industrially-generated white groundwood-free paper - printed or unprinted. All stock must be uncoated and free of non-impact printing.

Prohibited materials may not exceed 1%

Total out throws may not exceed 2%

#43 Coated Book Stock (CBS)

Consists of coated, groundwood-free paper in sheets, shavings, guillotined books and cuttings - printed or unprinted. A reasonable percentage of paper containing fine groundwood may be included.

Prohibited materials are not permitted

Total out throws may not exceed 2%