Certified Recycled Content
Recycling is more than just dropping off your cans, bottles, and newspapers at the curb or at a local collection facility. Diverting recyclables from the waste stream is only the first of three steps in the recycling process. The second step occurs when companies use these recyclables to manufacture new products. The third step comes when consumers purchase products made from recovered materials.
Our success in paper recycling reflects a commitment to conserve natural resources and recognition that recovered paper is an important raw material in producing innovative molded fiber products. Our use of recovered paper keeps it out of landfills and ensures we get the maximum value out of wood fiber.
Through Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) Material Content certification programs, manufacturers, including Western Pulp Products, have earned the right to label products with SCS third-party certification, verifying claims including recycled, reclaimed, salvaged, and bio-based materials content.
Recycling Carbon Benefits over Disposal
Product Certification Information
Smaller versions of these badges can be found throughout our site on relevant pages. Click on the link next to each badge to get product information.
Hanging Baskets - Waxed
Minimum 40% Recycled Paper Content, with at least 20% Post-consumer Recycled Paper and the balance (20%) Pre-consumer. Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis)
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01690
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
Nursery & Greenhouse Containers – Waxed
Minimum 38% Recycled Paper Content, with at least 19% Post-consumer Recycled Paper and the balance (19%) Pre-consumer Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis)
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01691
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
Nursery & Greenhouse Containers – Un-Waxed
Minimum 66% Recycled Paper Content, with at least 33% Post-consumer Recycled Paper and the balance (33%) Pre-consumer Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis).
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01692
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
Lightweight Plug Carrier, Greenhouse & Rose Containers
Minimum 88% Pre-consumer Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis).
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01693
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
Rose Pots
Minimum 87% Post-consumer Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis).
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01694
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
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Wine Shippers
Minimum 97% Recycled Paper Content, with at least 82% Post-consumer Recycled Paper and the balance (15%) Pre-consumer Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis)
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01695
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
Standard and Shock Block Packaging
Minimum 98% Pre-consumer Recycled Paper Content (dry weight basis)
Registration Number: SCS-MC-01696
Valid Certification Period: June 5, 2008 to May 31, 2009
Visit the SCS website for more about recycled content certification.
Material Definitions
A pre-consumer recycled material is defined as that material “diverted from the waste stream during or from the manufacturing process, and used as feedstock in the manufacture of new products. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind, or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (Source ISO 14021)
A post-consumer recycled material is that material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end-users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain (Source: ISO 14021)
Recycling Carbon Benefits over Disposal
According to Confederation of Paper Industries one of the key benefits of paper recycling is that there are carbon savings available from simply diverting paper products from alternative disposal routes such as landfill and incineration.
Paper is biodegradable and when landfilled creates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, which has been recognized as contributing to climate change. Paper is also a carbon-based product and when incinerated releases carbon dioxide, again recognized as contributing to climate change. However, paper is a readily recyclable product, and through recycling the carbon is retained in the product for longer and contributes to reducing the primary fiber requirements in the industry. This allows forests to be managed over longer periods and contributes very significantly to the sustainability of the overall paper industry.
To learn more read the fact sheet Paper and Cardboard Recycling — Greenhouse Gas Benefits Explained published by Confederation of Paper Industries.