• Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest recyclers of paper, collecting for recycling more than 6.74 million tons of paper in 2005, approximately 13% of the paper recovered in the U.S. -- enough to fill a train with 134,000 freight cars. Typical recyclables include old corrugated containers, office wastepaper, old newspapers and printing papers. More than 4 million tons of the recycled material Weyerhaeuser collects is used in its mills to make new paper. The rest is sold to customers around the world. Recycled fiber comprises about 35 percent of the content of new Weyerhaeuser paper, as averaged across all grades of paper produced by the company; 53 percent in our containerboard alone.

• Every Weyerhaeuser manufacturing facility that generates residuals and/or solid waste has developed strategies and implemented programs to manage, eliminate or reduce the production of solid wastes. Weyerhaeuser beneficially reuses residuals in making its own products, ships them off site for use in the making of other products or converts them to energy. Our Wright City, OK softwood lumber mill reactivated a little-used bark washer to recycle log yard debris into biomass fuel for the mill's boilers, gravel for local roadways, and material that is used as topsoil.

To view waste management solutions of all BELC members, visit What's Being Done in the Business Community [1] section of this site.