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- Rain Forest
- Areas of evergreen forest receiving over 60 inches of rain a year. Rain forests play a critical role in regulating the world's climate. We have already destroyed half of all rain forests, and at the current rate of destruction, the rest could be gone in as little as 50 years.
- Recyclable
- Used to describe a product which has the potential to be recycled.
- Recycled paper
- Recycled paper contains fibres that have previously been made into paper that has been despatched from the paper mill. The percentage and type of recycled fibre may be specified in the name or product specification. Common classifications for recycled fibres include post consummer, (returned from households offices or shops), pre consumer, (printers and converters waste), or rejected material returned by the customer. Specification for the use of recycled paper may include a minimum percentage of post consumer waste in the furnish of the product.
- Recycling
- Waste materials used in such a way that new materials can be manufactured from it.
- Regeneration - Managed forests
- Regeneration may be natural or 'artificial' (performed through planting), and may occur at the level of an individual tree or small group of trees (following selection harvests in uneven-aged silviculture).
- Regeneration - Unmanaged forests
- Regeneration takes place on a variety of scales - from individual trees to large areas of forest leveled by large-scale natural disturbance, such as wildfire.
- Residues
- Bark and woody materials that are generated in primary wood-using mills when roundwood products are converted to other products.