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384 PAPER MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS

■ Anticipate barriers to a successful program and how you will overcome them. Learn
from others. Ask employees what potential problems they see. They, after all, will
be responsible for running the program.
■ Train paper manufacturing workers well, and well ahead of program implementation.
■ Monitor and periodically reevaluate your program.
■ Use composting diversion to reduce your waste hauling and tipping costs.
■ Be creative.

28.6 Case Study

This case study examines a 300 ton per day paper mill in Ohio. For the purposes of
this case study, the facility will be referred to as “the mill.” Figure 28.1 is a picture of
the factory floor of the mill. The mill consists of a de-inking facility (which recycles
waste paper into reusable fiber) and a paper mill. Approximately 85 to 90 percent of
the fiber used as raw material at the paper mill is generated at the de-inking facility
(approximately 30 percent is post-consumer fiber). The de-inking facility produces
approximately 225 tons of fiber daily. The waste fiber is combined with approximately
25 tons of virgin fiber, 40 tons of calcium carbonate, and 20 tons of starch per day to
produce the mill’s paper products. The facility employs approximately 340 people.
The largest waste stream generated by the facility is waste fiber, which is disposed of at
the facility’s landfill. The mill spends approximately $1.2 to $1.5 million per year to
operate and maintain this landfill. The projected capacity for the landfill was about

Figure 28.1 Paper manufacturing operations.