TRIM WASTE RECYCLING — REPURPOSED DOLLARS

Let’s take the 10-cent tour of how a trim recycling system works. Product is sucked upward out of a retaining bin at one of the finishing lines and, in the case of Quad’s Sussex plant, hits a top speed of 85 miles per hour (7,500 feet per minute). The piping then turns for a more horizontal run at slightly less speeds (68 mph) until reaching the top of one of the cyclones. At that point, the paper is treated to an anticlimactic free fall at a heart-racing 3 mph until reaching the final destination at the bottom of the cyclone.