ISBN: 1 920887 05 9

The success of paper recycling and the environmental benefits that flow from it are partly dependant on strong demand for recycled content products.  Purchasing paper and products made from recycled paper "closes the loop" on the flow of that material, conserving the resources needed to make it and avoiding the environmental impacts of waste disposal to our landfills.

Know Your Printing Paper Guide been produced to make choosing and using recycling printing papers easier. It contains information about characteristics use and availability of all recycled content papers that would be used for most common business printing jobs. It also provides details of suppliers of all the papers.

The quality of recycled papers has improved greatly in recent years and those being made now can look as good and perform as well as those made from virgin resources.  Most importantly, this Guide includes sample pages of all the papers described so that their whiteness, finish and opacity can be compared and considered along with the other factors described when making the decision to select one.

The Guide has been produced by The Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW) with the assistance of paper manufactures, distributors, designers and printers as well as business and government consumers of commercially printed material and the Printing Industries Association of Australia.

Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW)
Published: 2004

To download a free copy of the Know Your Printing Paper Guide  click here (800kb)