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Recycling paper's sustainable - with a twentyfold increase at the start to make it significant (11)

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I believe the answer is:

appreciable

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'sustainable with a twentyfold increase at the start to make it significant' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'recycling paper's' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'paper' is 'appre' which is within the answer.
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(Other definitions for appreciable that I've seen before include "Large enough to be noticed" , "Enough to be taken into account" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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