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The article reports that the New Zealand government, through Environment Minister David Benson-Pope, congratulated the country's paper sector for meeting the paperboard recycling target two years ahead of schedule. The sector registered a 72% recovery rate of paperboard packaging ahead of the 2008 target year. He emphasized that the country's recycling targets are comparable with the rates being achieved overseas. Benson-Pope said that the national targets for the recovery of aluminum, glass, steel, and plastic are all proceeding towards their 2008 targets.