Y-12 recycling sensitive documents, converting into reusable briquettes

Note: This story was updated at 12:45 p.m. April 21. The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge is recycling sensitive documents by disintegrating them and compressing them into paper briquettes, which are used to make a cellulose binder for construction products, such as asphalt sealants. In Fiscal Year 2019, 270,000 pounds of paper briquettes […]