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TCMRF Single-Sort Constituent Test product while contaminating materials are sorted away from it. From a paper mill's perspective, contaminating materials include other paper grades, containers and trash. It is standard practice at the TCMRF to regnlarly sample newspaper bales in order to check overall production efficiencies for the single-sort process line. Production bales are selected on a random basis and hand-sorted by process workers. The workers separate the baled material into three categories; newspaper, outthrows6 and prohibitives7. This regnlar testing provides: . A regular documentation of material quality, . Immediate feedback to workers regarding their work effort, and . An historical database for reference in discussions with consuming mills. Figure 6 - Testing Newspaper Bale Paper mills will have varying standards for acceptability when it comes to various paper grades. Direct comparison of different processing facilities and different paper mills can be difficult. What is important is whether the processing facility can regnlarly produce a quality product meeting the specifications of the mills to which it markets. In consultation with its paper mill customers, the TCMRF has set a production standard of 1.5 percent (average) or less for total outthrows and prohibitives for its newspaper 6 Defined by Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc, Scrap Specifications, Paper Stock as "all papers that are so manufactured or treated or are in such form as to be unsuitable for consumption as the grade specified." (emphasis added). 7 Defmed by Institute of Scrap Recycling Iudustries, Inc, Scrap Specifications, Paper Stock as: . Any materials which by their presence in a packing of paper stock, in excess of the amount allowed, will make the packaging unusable as the grade specified. . Any materials that may be damaging to equipment. 9