Paper
Packaging Coordination Group
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Glossary
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TERMINOLOGY
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DEFINITION
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Collection
(of paper and board)
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Separate collection of paper and paper products from industrial and commercial outlets, from households and offices for Recovery. (Collection includes transport to the sorting/processing or recycling plant/paper mill).
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Consumer
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Industrial, commercial or private end-user.
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Consumption
(apparent)
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Internal deliveries into the defined countries (see 1.2) plus imports from countries outside this coverage.
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Consumption of
paper and board
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Internal deliveries to the defined countries plus imports from countries outside this coverage.
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Converter
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Processor of paper or board as a raw material (such as
packaging, printing).
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Deinkability
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Removal of ink and/or toner from a printed product to a high extent by means of a deinking process. This shall restore as good as possible the optical properties of the unprinted product.
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Distribution
(of paper & board)
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Wholesale and retail trade of paper and board material and products ensuring the link between the producer/converter or importer and the final consumer.
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Europe
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For the Declaration 27 EU member states, Norway and Switzerland.
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Final disposal
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Definitive deposit of waste to landfill or incineration without energy recovery.
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Manufacturer
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Producer of paper and/or board.
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Net trade of
defined area.
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The difference of recovered paper imports from and exports to the recovered paper
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Packer/filler
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User of packaging material to put a product into marketable units.
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Paper
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Term used to cover all grades of paper and board.
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Paper product
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General term used to cover all paper and board-based converted products.
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Paper value chain
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All parties, linked directly or indirectly, from paper and board manufacturing to the collector/merchant of used paper and board products.
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Printer
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Manufacturer of printed products using paper or board as printing surface (? Converter).
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Publisher
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One who publishes (owns and brings to the market) products which are printed on paper.
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Recovered paper (RP)
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Used paper and board separately collected and in general processed according to the European Standard List of
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Recovered Paper and
(EN 643)
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Board Grades.
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Recovered Paper
collector
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One who separately collects used paper and board; he may also have processing (sorting, handling) transport or trade activities.
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Recovered Paper
merchant
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One who primarily buys, processes and sells RP; he may be actively involved in its collection.
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Recovered Paper
trader
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One who buys and sells RP without any operational collection or processing activity.
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Recyclability
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Design, manufacturing and converting of paper based products in such a way as to enable a high quality recycling of fibres and other materials in a manufacturing process in compliance - where appropriate - with current standards in the Community.
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Recycled paper
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New paper and board where fibres originate from recovered paper.
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Recycling
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Reprocessing of RP in a production process into new paper and board.
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Recycling rate
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The ratio between RP utilised for ? Recycling including RP net trade, and paper and board consumption.
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Utilisation
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Consuming recovered paper in a paper mill while producing recycled paper.
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Waste
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Any substance or object which holder discards or intends or is required to discard.
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Note: Paper and board products, once they have been collected and processed for further recycling, become a valuable secondary raw material and should no longer be considered as waste, according to the paper industry.
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