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Australian Standard

Recycled paper—Glossary of terms

AS 4082—1992
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee MS/52, Recycled Paper. It was
approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 23 September 1992 and
published on 16 November 1992.

The following interests are represented on Committee MS/52:

Appita
Australian Archives
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Australian Chamber of Manufactures

Australian Conservation Foundation
Australian Government Publishing Service
Confederation of Australian Industry
Department of Administrative Services (Commonwealth)
Division of Forest Products, CSIRO
Friends of the Earth
National Library of Australia
National Paper Marketing Council of Australia
Publishers National Environment Bureau
Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Federation of Australia
Recycling Advisory Unit, NSW Environment Protection Authority

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This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 91071.

 AS 4082—1992

Australian Standard
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Recycled paper—Glossary of terms

First publi shed as AS 4082—1992.

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 7892 0
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PREFACE
This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee on Recycled Paper at the request
of the Commonwealth and New South Wales Departments of Administrative Services.
The Standard was prepared to provide a uniform vocabulary relating to paper recycling in Australia.
It is expected that the Standard will be used in education programs within both the paper industry and
the community in general. Terms used to describe the sources of fibres and processes used in the
manufacture of paper are included in this Standard. Various paper properties, which can be affected
by the characteristics of the fibre used, have also been included. Environmental aspects of paper
production and recycling processes are not covered.
Where appropriate, terms are defined according to ISO 4046, Paper, board, pulp and related terms—
Vocabulary. While the exact ISO wording has not been retained in all cases, the definitions in the two
documents are compatible. Additional explanatory material has been presented separately in the form
of Notes. The American Paper Institute’s The dictionary of paper* was consulted for terms which
were not defined in ISO 4046 and acknowledgement is made of the assistance this publication
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provided in several instances.

During preparation of this Standard, the Committee also reviewed the progress of ASTM
Subcommittee D06.40 on recycled paper which was in the process of drafting a similar document, the
final report on recycled paper definitions, procurement standards, content measurement, labelling
guidelines and ‘buy recycled’ initiatives of the Recycling Advisory Council, USA, and national
guidelines and discussion drafts on recycled paper and paper products from the Environmental Choice
Program, Canada.
Of the interests represented on the Committee, the Friends of the Earth and the Confederation of
Australian Industry did not support the publication of this Standard due to concerns about the
introduction of the term ‘printed waste paper’.
* AMERICAN PAPER INSTITUTE. The dicti onary of paper, 4th ed. Phil adelphia: Winchell Company, 1980.

CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
GLOSSARY OF TERMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
APPENDIX A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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FOREWORD
The classification of fibres into categories such as virgin fibre, fibre from pre-consumer waste paper,
fibre from post-consumer waste paper and fibre from printed waste paper is critical to the application
of this Standard and the use of the term recycled paper. The Committee was aware that there was no
reliable way of distinguishing between recycled fibres and virgin fibres within a pulp or piece of
paper. However, after much consideration, the use of source monitoring was seen as a practicable
means for paper manufacturers to obtain the information necessary to use the definitions for pre-
consumer waste paper, post-consumer waste paper and virgin fibre in this Standard.
The Committee recognized that the procedures for calculation of recycled fibre content set out in this
Standard do not give a precisely accurate result. However, the state of practice in the Australian paper
recycling and papermaking industry was such that a more accurate system of calculation was not
cost-effectively achievable at the time of publication of this Standard. There was no reason to believe
that the inaccuracies in the calculation method would not operate equally across all paper recycling
situations, so the margin of error was not considered significant in distinguishing between the various
categories of the recycled fibre content. In other words, the method of calculation set out provides a
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more consistent and more objectively substantiable means of indicating recycled fibre content than
any current alternative.
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