Testing Standards and Definition of Terms

Book Id: WPLBN0000150109
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Testing Standards and Definition of Terms
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Excerpt: (B) The P.L. 101–423, Joint Resolution to Establish a National Policy on Permanent Paper, passed October 1990, states: ‘‘It is the policy of the United States that Federal records, books, and publications of enduring value be produced on acid free permanent papers.’’ Pick resistance: Use method T–459 (wax pick) for uncoated papers. Note: There is no standardized pick test for coated papers. PMU (phosphor meter unit): Specialized equipment for measuring this property available from the U.S. Postal Service. Porosity: Use method T–460. Postconsumer fiber: Pulp fiber derived from postconsumer recovered paper. Postconsumer material: (1) Paper, paperboard and fibrous wastes from retail stores, office buildings, homes and so forth, after they have passed through their end-usage as a consumer item including: Used corrugated boxes; old newspapers; old magazines; mixed waste paper; tabulating cards and used cordage; and (2) All paper, paperboard and fibrous wastes that enter and are collected from municipal solid waste.’’ (40 CFR 247.3) Recovered material: Waste material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste, but such term does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process. In the case of paper and paper products, the term ‘‘recovered materials’’ includes: (1) Postconsumer materials such as: (i) Paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from retail stores, office buildings, homes, and so forth, after they have passed through their end usage as a consumer item, including: Used corrugated boxes, old newspapers, old magazines, mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and used cordage, and, (ii) All paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes that enter and are collected from municipal solid waste; and (2) Manufacturing, forest residues, and other wastes such as: (i) Dry paper and paperboard waste generated after completion of the papermaking process (that is, those manufacturing operations up to and including the cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into smaller rolls or rough sheets) including envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, and other paper and paperboard waste, resulting from printing, cutting, forming, and other converting operations; bag, box and carton manufacturing wastes; and butt rolls, mill wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and...

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