Recovered Fiber Recycling

Manistique Papers was a pioneer in paper recycling. Each year, we recover 175,000 tons of fiber from municipal recyclers and printers. This equates to 9,000 semi-trailers stretching a distance of 110 miles.

Our recovered paper is supplied by recycling plants. We purchase recovered fiber from municipalities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The remainder is supplied by printers. Our raw material consists of the following:

• Mixed residential Papers
• Undelivered bulk business mail
• Mixed office papers
• Recovered paper from books, novels and annual reports
• Periodicals, Magazines, catalogs and directories
• Trim and scrap from printing plants

In keeping with our environmental progressiveness, Manistique Papers developed a "closed loop" transportation system. Trucks delivering products produced in Northern Michigan, which would otherwise have returned empty, are utilized to haul recovered fiber back to the Manistique Papers mill. Assisting truckers in reducing "run empty" miles conserves fuel resources and minimizes our carbon footprint.