About 94 of U.S. residents had either curb-side or drop-off recycling service for at least one type of paper last year, indicating recycling programs largely retained the material despite pandemic pressures. The data point comes from a survey commissioned by the American Forest Paper Association (AFPA), which held a Jan. 25 media briefing on the results. AFPA members own 114 recycling facilities around the country. Conducted by consulting firm Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), the access to recycling study looked at residential access to paper and paperboard recycling across America last year. It was the first time the survey had been conducted since 2014. The 94 access was down from 96 in 2014, but AFPA executives were pleased with the number, given pandemic disruptions and changes in consumption patterns over the past two years.
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