Is the plastic used in making books recycled?

Plastics Information Direct has a great selection of books about plastics from various publishers including books about recycling. Here is a link to a page devoted to the recycling books they carry. Recycling & Disposal. read more

Recycled paperboard is made from 100 percent recovered fiber, which may include newspaper, magazines, corrugated boxboard, paperboard folding cartons, and telephone books. One side of the recycled paperboard is usually gray in color. read more

Recycling makes us feel good, but few of us know what actually happens to a plastic bottle after we drop it into a bin. What happens is the bottle enters an elaborate global system within which its plastic is sold, shipped, melted, resold, and shipped again—sometimes zigzagging the globe before becoming a carpet, clothing, or repeating life as a bottle. read more

Books and magazines are at the middle of this lifecycle, meaning they were produced from higher-quality paper fibers like office paper. Some of the fiber created from recycling books and magazines can be used to produce other paper products like phone books, but the fibers aren’t strong enough to make new books and magazines. read more