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Pre-consumer waste
Table 3.1
Pronunciation
Subdomain (1st level):  Raw materials
Subdomain (2nd level):  Pulp
Grammatical category:  Complex term
Grammar notes:  Uncountable
Definition:  Waste paper recovered after the papermaking process or coming from printers.
Definition source:  Brewer (2003)
Context:  WASTE PAPER: Recovered post-consumer printing/writing papers including some pre-consumer waste. (Because the term “waste paper” may infer a disposal connotation, some North American industry groups are promoting other terms as more appropriate, including “scrap paper” and “recovered paper”).
Context source:  EN 9
Attestation:  3
Contained in:  Waste paper
Related terms:  Post-consumer waste
It:  Riciclo preconsumer
Degree of reliability IT:  3
Fr:  Rebut Pré-Consommation
Degree of reliability FR:  3