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by pfdietz 1298 days ago
Are adhesive labels, tape, staples, etc. effectively separated from cardboard, or do those degrade the value of the recycled material?
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From small experiments recycling paper, I'd guess that any kind of plastic or metal is trivial to separate, and any kind of paper gets mixed into the new cardboard. That probably degrades the recycled material, but very likely not enough to be the bottleneck.