Recycling Operations

To serve its recycling-based mills, Smurfit-Stone has built one of the largest reclamation businesses in the industry and now handles more than 6.6 million tons of recycled paper annually.

RECYCLING PRODUCT LINES AND END-USE MARKETS

SSCC’s recycling business has the capacity and flexibility to process recovered paper generated by industrial, commercial and residential sources.

Approximately 38 percent of the fiber collected is used in the company’s containerboard mills. The majority of the remainder is sold on the open market. Of the volume collected and sold externally*, 43 percent is old corrugated containers (OCC); 18 percent double lined kraft (DLK); 16 percent is old newspapers (ONP); and 23 percent is a variety of grades including non-fiber products, such as aluminum, glass and plastic. Smurfit-Stone Waste Reduction Services’ (SWRS) experts counsel a wide range of customers on strategies to develop comprehensive waste management solutions, reduce costs and increase efficiency.

North American recycling operations include:

• 23 collection facilities
• 12 sales offices (one in China)

* Statistics reflect third party treatment of key fiber sales to the company’s former Consumer Packaging business.