Paper Recycling Systems — Waste Not, Want Money

Also, all slab waste, light waste and some press waste were tossed into Gaylord boxes. And sometimes, large light waste was deposited into a downstroke baler. Doug Hall, whose many hats at American Spirit Graphics include paper inventory controller, was not fond of the Gaylord box system.

“It took a lot of space to store them along with the skids. And you always run the risk of a broken box, or just a big mess on the floor,” Hall says. “We would fill these boxes, run them back to the truck, and then have to come back and set up another box and run them out to the pressroom. So it was very labor-intensive to keep that system going, along with tying off the bales and getting them on the truck. It was also a very confusing system.”