FSC Certified Paper
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international, membership-based, non-profit organization that supports environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests.

FSC- certified paper comes from forests that are protected and regularly monitored. Forestry management practises are regularly assessed; there is no clearing of forests to establish plantations; genetically modified trees are not permitted; high conservation value forests are set aside; key wildlife habitat and species are conserved; waterways are protected to ensure clean water supplies.

FSC-certified papers contain a combination of post-consumer waste / recycled fibre; FSC-certified fibre from well-managed forests; and fibre from controlled sources. Although recycled fibre is often considered the only alternative for responsible papers, it can only meet 35% of current paper consumption, and due to quality requirements not all paper can be 100% recycled. See http://www.fsccanada.org/  for more information.

Post Consumer Waste Paper (PCW)
Post-Consumer Waste Paper (PCW) is paper that has served its intended purpose and has been separated from solid waste to be recycled into new paper. This is what we put in our blue boxes.

Recycled Content
Paper made from pulp with varying percentages of waste paper and virgin wood fibre. The term 'recycled' does not mean that a product contains 100% recovered materials. Nor does it mean that a product contains post-consumer materials. Recycled means that a product contains some recovered materials. Recycled content can vary from small percentages of pre-consumer to 100% post-consumer materials.

De-lnking
The process which removes inks, clays, coatings and other contaminant’s from printing and converted waste paper.

Processed Chlorine Free (PCF)
Recycled paper in which the recycled content is unbleached or bleached without chlorine or chlorine derivatives. Any virgin material portion of the paper must be totally chlorine free.

Recyclable Paper
Any paper separated at its point of discard or from the solid waste stream for utilization as a raw material in the manufacturing of a new product and that can be de-inked. It is often called "waste paper."