Offset Paper - Surviving The Digital Era

Recycled Demand Low

What is threatening to become obsolete is the supply of recycled paper, demand for which continues to be steady but small.

"For the past three years, recycled offset has been very consistent for us," says Plumberg, who estimates that recycled paper accounts for five percent of Boise Cascade's offset sales. "Most of what we see are government jobs—either state, local or federal—that require a recycled content." This is typically 30 percent post-consumer content, she says.