Today, the line is designed and tuned to receive a single stream that’s roughly 70 percent newsprint, magazines, and junk mail. But that’s changing: more and more Houstonians are reading their papers on e-readers. There are good statistics to back up the shift: according to Moore & Associates, an Atlanta paper recycling consultancy, in 2002 Americans recycled 10.492 million tons of newsprint. In 2011 they recycled 6.615 million tons. As a direct result, junk mail, as a percentage of the recyclable waste stream, is growing. For the purposes of a mechanical sorting line, that’s a big shift: junk
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Id like to see these stats for 2019 (2020 has been a weird year). Newspaper is proobably all the way down while cardboard is probably wayyyy up
