United States

The United States is the world’s largest producer of pulp and paperboard and a major consumer country. The United States strongly promotes the recycling of waste paper and encourages enterprises to use waste paper to produce cardboard and packaging materials. For example, the US stone container company uses waste paper to produce cordeck corrugated flat plates for packaging and transportation of goods; R-Tech company produces E-cubes packaging materials made from recycled waste paper, and can be packed into fragile after adding fillers. Compared with foam plastics, articles are more convenient and quicker to fill, can be filled with any shape of goods, recycled, biodegradable and non-toxic.

In 2000, the output of paper products in the United States was 85.495 million tons, and the consumption amounted to 92.355 million tons, accounting for 28.6% of the world's consumption. The waste paper recovery amount was 44.938 million tons, the recovery rate was 48.7%, 35.908 million tons was recycled, and the net export volume was 9.03 million tons, accounting for 20% of the total recycling volume. The waste paper in the United States is mainly exported to neighboring countries Canada, Mexico and East Asia, South Korea and China. In the United States, OCC accounts for almost half of the waste paper, followed by ONP. The recovery rates of OCC and ONP have reached 70.1% and 68.9% (1999), and there is little possibility of further increase. On the contrary, a type of waste paper called RMP is not yet fully utilized. The recovery rate is only about 20%, and it needs further recycling. For future development, the United States has proposed that the utilization rate of waste paper should reach 50% of paper production. Among them, newsprint reaches 60% to 70%; printing paper reaches 40% to 50%; toilet paper must use waste paper as raw material.

In December 2003, a report released by the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted that the supply of recovered paper in the United States is expected to increase year by year from 2010 to 2050. The forecasting figures are as follows: In 2010, the supply was 156.2 million tons, of which the supply of paper pulp was 105.6 million tons, and the supply of recycled paper was 0.506 billion tons. In 2020, it was 178 million tons, including 120.9 million tons of wood pulp and 557.1 million tons of paper. In 2030 it was 198.2 million tons, of which wood pulp was 134.9 million tons and recycled paper was 633.3 million tons.

Germany

Although Germany lacks fiber resources, it imports a large amount of commercial pulp and paper every year. However, because of the large amount of consumption, the recovery rate of waste paper is high and there are a large number of waste paper exports each year. Germany is the world’s second largest exporter of waste paper. In 2000, the output of waste paper and paperboard was 18.182 million tons, and the consumption was 191.22 million tons. The recovered paper was 13.57 million tons, and the recycling rate was 71%; the net export of waste paper was 2.578 million tons in the same year. It accounts for 19% of the total recovery, which is very close to the United States.

The German Bidirectional System Recovery Organization (DSD), under the jurisdiction of the EU competition regulations, will be forced to open the bidding rules for packaging waste recycling contracts to EU countries. DSD is composed of 414 packaging paper collectors, sorters and recyclers in Germany. It collects 1.5 million tons of waste paper annually, including corrugated boxes. The organization subsidizes waste paper collectors 50 million euros (53 million US dollars) a year, and the expenses are paid by the German national green point marking system in annual revenue. The European Union has forced the DSD to terminate and lift the bidding process for contracts prior to January 2004, requiring it to open its doors to group subscribers operating in the packaging waste business in other EU countries. Recently, the relevant agencies are investigating the texts of the new contract terms formulated by DSD in order to provide opinions on the reduction of the amount of subsidies given by the paper packaging recyclers.

Japan

Japan’s paper production is second only to the United States. In recent years, Japan’s output of paper and paperboard has been increasing year by year. In 2001, its output was 30.717 million tons, which was 1.1 times that of 1990. During the 11 years from 1990 to 2001, the consumption of Japanese wood pulp remained basically unchanged, because waste paper has become the main raw material for the Japanese paper industry. In 2001, waste paper accounted for 58% of Japan's raw materials for paper and board production.

According to the statistics of Japan's Waste Paper Recycling Promotion Center, Japan’s waste paper consumption in the first half of 2003 was 8,957,542 tons, an increase of 1.7% over the same period in 2002. The amount of paper used was 3,088,071 tons, an increase of 1.5%, and the use of paperboard was 5,887,471 tons, an increase of 1.8%. If we look at old newsprint and old magazine paper, the amount of old newsprint on paper is 2,060,660 tons, an increase of 0.9%; the use of old magazine paper is 208,543 tons, an increase of 13.6%. It is evident that the use of old magazine paper for cultural paper is still Continued growth. However, the use of old newsprint and old magazine paper decreased by 2.7% and 2.8%, respectively, indicating that the two types of waste paper are gradually being transferred to cultural paper. In addition, the waste paper recovery rate was 65.3%, and the utilization rate was 59.6%, which was roughly the same level as in 2002.

Finland

Finland is rich in forest resources. Forests account for more than 70% of the country's land area and export a large amount of wood pulp fibers each year. In spite of this, since 1990, they have also begun to pay attention to waste paper recycling, which amounts to 50-600,000 tons per year. Finland has always attached importance to the recovery and utilization of waste paper. There are classified bins in residential areas and large shopping malls in various cities and towns. Residents consciously send old newspapers, magazines, advertisements and waste cardboard to designated collection points. Last year, Finland’s per capita waste paper recycling amounted to 143 kg, ranking among the best in the world. Of the waste paper and paperboard recycled in 2002, 40% were used to produce paperboard products, 36% were used to produce newsprint paper, and 21% were used to produce a variety of soft paper. In the raw materials used for the production of paper and board in Finland, the proportion of recycled paper accounted for 5.6%.

China

The amount of waste paper used in China has increased from 8.1 million tons in 1995 to 16.38 million tons in 2001, which has doubled in five years. However, there are still gaps compared with some foreign countries that use a lot of paper.

At present, China's waste paper recycling and development are unbalanced and coastal areas are developing rapidly. In 2001, the total amount of waste pulp in the country accounted for 44% of the total amount of paper pulp. After deducting imported waste paper, the domestic waste paper recycling rate was less than 30%. Surveys show that approximately 1.3 million tons of waste paper produced in Shanghai each year are basically recovered. Most of them are sent to other places for low-grade recycled paper production. This is because the quality of local waste paper recycling is poor, not only the advantages and disadvantages, but also mixed with water, with rubber, mixed with garbage phenomenon. Experts suggest that an effective recycling channel be established as soon as possible to collect white paper scrap, printing waste paper, waste paper, periodical magazines and other "high-grade waste paper" from printing houses, office buildings, and residents' homes, and provide stable production for large-scale production of enterprises. The "grain source."

The "Tenth Five-Year Plan" of China's papermaking industry proposed that the proportion of waste paper utilization should be increased from 41% in 2000 to 48% in 2010 and 55% in 2015, of which the utilization ratio of domestic waste paper will reach 43% in 2015. In recent years, the increase in the utilization rate of waste paper mainly depends on imported waste paper.