Sorting
Successful recycling requires clean recovered paper, so you must keep your paper free from
contaminants, such as food, plastic, metal, and other trash, which make paper difficult to recycle.
Contaminated paper which cannot be recycled must be composted, burned for energy, or landfilled.
Recycling centers usually ask that you sort your paper by grade, or type of paper. Your local recycling
center can tell you how to sort paper for recycling in your community. To locate your nearest dealer,
look in the yellow pages of your phone book under “waste paper” or “recycling.”