MATERIALS
CORRUGATED
OCC: Old Corrugated Containers
Used boxes, containers, or other packaging made from unbleached, un-waxed paper with a ruffled or corrugated inner liner
OCC (11): Supermarket Corrugated
Corrugated containers with either test liner or kraft (prohibitive materials may not exceed 1%)
DLK: Double Lines Kraft
Clean, dry, die-cut scrap from box-converting operations (typically waste from a new box)
DEINKING / NEW GRADES
OMG: Office Magazine Groundwood
Catalogs, coated magazines, and other similar materials (occasionally a small percentage of uncoated news-type paper)
SCN (#9 News): Sorted Clean Newspaper
Sorted newspapers (free of excessive ink, brown grades, and magazines) from source separated collection programs, converters, and drop-off centers (usually pre-consumer paper picked up directly from paper processor)
WBN: White Blank Newspaper
Unprinted cuttings and sheets of white newsprint or other uncoated white groundwood paper of similar quality
MIXED PAPER
Different Types of Paper Mixed Together
Phonebooks, magazines, junk mail, office paper, paperboard packaging, or any kind of paper that doesn’t fall into the category of corrugated cardboard or newspaper
HIGH GRADES
SOP: Sorted Office Paper
Printed or unprinted paper sheets, shavings, and cuttings of colored or white sulphite or sulphate ledger, bond, writing, and other papers which have similar fiber and filler content
CBS: Coated Book Stock
Coated printed or unprinted shavings, cuttings, sheets and books (typically groundwood-free, but a reasonable percentage of paper containing fine groundwood is acceptable)
HPSBS: Heavily Printed, Solid Bleached Sulphate Board
Groundwood-free, heavily printed and bleached sulphate cuttings (contains medium to heavy printed sheets or shavings)
LPSBS: Lightly Printed, Solid Bleached Sulphate Board
Groundwood-free, lightly printed bleached sulphate cuttings, free from misprint sheets, printed cartons, wax, greaseproof lamination, gilt, and inks, adhesives or coatings that are insoluble (contains minimal amounts of ink and is typically found in the food, dairy, and pharmaceutical industries, requiring a USDA approval)
SWL: Sorted White Ledger
Uncoated printed or unprinted shavings, cuttings, guillotined books, or sheets of white ledger (groundwood is not acceptable)
PULP SUBS
UPSBS: Un-Printed, Solid Bleached Sulphate Board
A virgin fiber grade of paperboard made purely from bleached chemical pulp that usually has a coating on the top surface (C1S) and often a coating on the reverse side (C2S) as well
HWS: Hard White Shavings
Shavings or sheets of uncoated, untreated, and unprinted white envelope paper that’s groundwood-free