Figure 10: In 1996, 70% of the OCC in the South went into containerboard, followed by 11% in boxboard, and 9% in corrugating medium.

Figure 11: In new and existing southern projects involving OCC, mills requiring 100% furnish of recovered fiber or virgin fiber have little flexibility to vary their furnish. Blended mills, however, can substitute a percentage of recovered fiber for virgin wood fiber when recovered fiber costs less.

Figure 12: Over the long term, the cost of OCC has been much more volatile than the cost of pulpwood.