With the continuous improvement of the American waste paper recycling system, there are new changes in waste paper standards. The new standard was developed by the “Recycling Industry Association of the United States†and is called Waste Specification Circular 1998 (abbreviated as SSC-98). This standard is a guiding standard and is not mandatory. The entire standard classifies and regulates non-metal and metal wastes.
The standard PS-96 is compared below for your reference.
No. 3 waste paper is currently widely used in domestic production processes such as whiteboard paper and high-strength corrugated paper. The annual import volume reaches 100,000 tons. SSC-98 removed No. 3 "Special waste magazine" from use, and changed it to No. 2 "Waste magazine". The standard is unchanged. It is still defined as follows: "It consists of a mixture of waste papers of various qualities that have been picked up and packaged and supplied. The content of groundwood pulp does not exceed 10%, debris does not exceed 0.5%, and the total amount of non-similar paper does not exceed 3%." At the same time, the No. 1 "waste of paper" in PS-96 was renamed No. 1 "soft waste magazine", and the standard remained unchanged.
The P-96 standard refers to No. 7 as a "special old newspaper." The standard stipulates that "freshness is not affected"; and non-similar papers are allowed to reach 2%. The SSC-98 renamed No. 7 as “de-inking-grade old newspapersâ€, apparently in order to adapt to the current situation of large-scale papermaking equipment. Imagine that even No. 8 “Old newspapers with special deinking papers†can have a non-bleachable grade. Can No. 7 be used as a deinking device in domestic small papermaking equipment? The SSC-98 also removes the “freedom from dampness†in the No. 7 standard. As a result, claims due to dampness will lose their textual basis. In addition, SSC-98 reduced the proportion of non-identical papers to 0.25% while clarifying “allowing publications to be includedâ€.
PS-94 has stricter requirements for the No. 8 "October Corrugated Paper Container" (OCC), and the PS-96 has lowered the standard, causing the original No. 11 factory to produce kraft linerboard to complain about the decline in quality. Some of the factories then changed to No. 12 “Selected Old Corrugated Carton Boxesâ€, which is considered to be similar to PS-94 Era 11 and is slightly better. Now SSC-98 has further raised the standard on No.12 “Selected Old Corrugated Boxesâ€, reducing the content of non-similar papers from the original 5% to 2%. It can be said that if the supply can be strictly implemented according to the new standard, the containerboard manufacturer should be able to use it with confidence. In addition, illegal traders once used the No. 12 carton to chop and faked No. 13 “double-cut double-sided corrugated corrugated new trim†on the market. The price was lower than the actual No. 13 and far higher than No. 12. Life manufacturers must be careful to identify.
The standard PS-96 is compared below for your reference.
No. 3 waste paper is currently widely used in domestic production processes such as whiteboard paper and high-strength corrugated paper. The annual import volume reaches 100,000 tons. SSC-98 removed No. 3 "Special waste magazine" from use, and changed it to No. 2 "Waste magazine". The standard is unchanged. It is still defined as follows: "It consists of a mixture of waste papers of various qualities that have been picked up and packaged and supplied. The content of groundwood pulp does not exceed 10%, debris does not exceed 0.5%, and the total amount of non-similar paper does not exceed 3%." At the same time, the No. 1 "waste of paper" in PS-96 was renamed No. 1 "soft waste magazine", and the standard remained unchanged.
The P-96 standard refers to No. 7 as a "special old newspaper." The standard stipulates that "freshness is not affected"; and non-similar papers are allowed to reach 2%. The SSC-98 renamed No. 7 as “de-inking-grade old newspapersâ€, apparently in order to adapt to the current situation of large-scale papermaking equipment. Imagine that even No. 8 “Old newspapers with special deinking papers†can have a non-bleachable grade. Can No. 7 be used as a deinking device in domestic small papermaking equipment? The SSC-98 also removes the “freedom from dampness†in the No. 7 standard. As a result, claims due to dampness will lose their textual basis. In addition, SSC-98 reduced the proportion of non-identical papers to 0.25% while clarifying “allowing publications to be includedâ€.
PS-94 has stricter requirements for the No. 8 "October Corrugated Paper Container" (OCC), and the PS-96 has lowered the standard, causing the original No. 11 factory to produce kraft linerboard to complain about the decline in quality. Some of the factories then changed to No. 12 “Selected Old Corrugated Carton Boxesâ€, which is considered to be similar to PS-94 Era 11 and is slightly better. Now SSC-98 has further raised the standard on No.12 “Selected Old Corrugated Boxesâ€, reducing the content of non-similar papers from the original 5% to 2%. It can be said that if the supply can be strictly implemented according to the new standard, the containerboard manufacturer should be able to use it with confidence. In addition, illegal traders once used the No. 12 carton to chop and faked No. 13 “double-cut double-sided corrugated corrugated new trim†on the market. The price was lower than the actual No. 13 and far higher than No. 12. Life manufacturers must be careful to identify.