What is pre-consumer and post-consumer waste?

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Emma Davis Content Strategist at 4OVER4.COM
May 8, 2025

Pre-consumer waste is material, such as trimmings from paper production that is discarded before it was used for the end consumer, common in paper manufacturing.

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