PHILIPPINES
Cebu-based used-paper buyer, Paper Savers and Trading Co. collects more than a million kilos of paper a year. Since its inception in 2003, it helped recycle 8,024,000 tons of paper. At an estimate of one ton of paper equivalent to 17 trees, it has help save 149,600 trees to-date.
The papers the firm collected came from printing companies, banks, hotels, resorts, malls, junk shops and scavengers. Colored papers, bond papers, and carbon papers are segregated at the warehouse.
White papers are then shipped to paper mills in Pampanga, where these are made into rolls of paper and toilet paper. While the colored ones are sold to makers of paper egg trays. Carbon paper are still being studied where to ship to. [Full report]
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