Standard Grades Archives

PS 11 Old corrugated containers (OCC)

Consists of corrugated containers.

PS 12 Double-sorted old corrugated (DS OCC)

Consists of double-sorted corrugated containers.

PS 13 New double-lined kraft corrugated cuttings (DLK)

Consists of new corrugated cuttings having liners of either test liner or kraft.

PS 14 Fiber Cores

Paper cores made from either recycled paperboard and/or linerboard.

PS 16 Mixed kraft cuttings

Consists of new brown kraft cuttings, sheets and bag scrap free of stitched paper.

PS 19 Kraft grocery bag (KGB)

New brown kraft bag cuttings, sheets and misprint bags.

PS 2 Soft mixed paper

Consists of a clean, sorted mixture of various qualities of paper.

PS 22 Mixed flyleaf shaving

Consists of trim of magazines, catalogs, inserts and similar printed matter, not limited with res

PS 27 Coated flyleaf shavings

Consists of lightly printed trim from magazines, catalogs and similar printed matter.

PS 28 Coated soft white shavings (SWS)

Unprinted, coated, and uncoated, shavings and sheets of white groundwood-free printing paper.

PS 3 Hard mixed paper (HMP)

Consists of a clean, sorted mixture of various qualities of paper.

PS 30 Hard white shavings (HWS)

Consists of shavings or sheets of unprinted, untreated white groundwood-free paper.

PS 36 Unsorted office paper (UOP)

Consists of printed or unprinted paper.

PS 37 Sorted office paper (SOP)

Consists of paper, as typically generated by offices, containing primarily white and colored groundwood-free paper.

PS 39 Manifold coloured ledger (MCL)

Consists of sheets, shavings, and cuttings of industrially generated printed or unprinted coloured or white groundwood-free paper.

PS 40 Sorted white ledger (SWL)

Sheets, shavings, guillotined books, and cuttings of white groundwood-free ledger, bond, writing, and other paper.

PS 43 Coated book stock (CBS)

Consists of coated groundwood-free paper.

PS 47 Unprinted bleached board

A mixture of various grades of paper and board.

PS 49 #2 Printed bleached cup stock (#2 Cup)

Consists of printed, untreated formed cups, cup die cuts, and misprint sheets of coated or uncoat

PS 51 Printed bleached plate stock

Groundwood-free bleached coated or uncoated, untreated printed plates and sheets.

PS 54 Mixed paper (MP)

Consists of all paper and paperboard of various qualities.

PS 56 & PS 58 Sorted residential papers and news (SRPN) & Sorted clean news (SCN)

Acceptable papers generated from residential programs. Sorted newspapers from source separated collection programs, converters, drop-off centers and paper drives.

PS 6 & 7 & 8 Old Newspaper, Regular news 9de-ink quality (#7 ONP)0, Special news (de-ink quality (#8 ONP))

Consists of sorted newspapers and other acceptable papers. Consists of sorted, fresh newspapers, not sunburned, and other acceptable papers.Consists of sorted, fresh newspapers, not sunburned, and other acceptable papers.

PS 9 Over-issue news (OI or OIN)

Consists of unused, overrun newspapers.