Waste Paper Handling: Chuck the Gaylord

"A marriage has to be made between the production equipment that generates the scrap and the speed at which it's being generated," Fakeris says. "The selection of the baler becomes critical."

The horsepower necessary to operate a paper retrieval/recycling system often takes printers by surprise, notes Jeff Dietterich, president of Advanced Equipment Sales. The minimal requirement for a horizontal baler is about 20 horsepower and, with pneumatic conveyance equipment in the picture, that can range from 50 to 100 horsepower and even higher. A shredder, suffice to say, boosts the juice requirement even further.