50% Recovery Goal: Fact or Fiction?, 1999 Recycling Symposium Proceedings
Susan L. Andersen
Thompson Avant International Inc.
The industry has stumbled on its way to the announced goal of recovering 50% of all paper by 2000. This paper will examine the likelihood of the goal being attained—and raise some questions as to its continued desirability. Some of the factors that impelled recovery a few years ago have dissipated or disappeared, etc. Some of the recovery drivers of the early to mid ‘90s are no longer driving. The industry may have reached the full extent of the practical limits of recovery, further increase in recovery may not even be desirable, and almost certainly will not be profitable.
50% Recovery Goal: Fact or Fiction?, 1999 Recycling Symposium Proceedings
