Norske Announces Suppliers of the Year Winners

NorskeCanada’s Paper Recycling division named Vancouver, British Columbia and Canadian Fibre its 2003 suppliers of the year for recovered fiber.

The paper recycling division chose the two winners due to the way the city and the recycling company worked together to provide quality old newspaper, old magazines and telephone directories to the paper company.

“What the city of Vancouver does shows that recycling works,” said Doug McLeod, purchasing director for NorskeCanada’s Paper Recycling Division. “When our recycling facility was completed in 1991, the recycling rate for old newspapers in British Columbia was about 40 percent. It’s now about 70 percent. That’s a tribute to the active and sometimes exuberant participation of everyone in our province who recycles.”

Through the city’s blue box and apartment recycling program, Vancouver collects about 11.7 million kilograms of old newspaper a year. Material collected through the city’s program is processed by Canadian Fibre. The final destination of the collected material is NorskeCanada’s deinking mill in Coquitlam, B.C.