Why aren’t we all using recycled paper?

I wanted to find out more about recycled paper. If Recycled paper is so much better, why isn’t everyone using it? I thought there had to be a catch. I began by looking into the expenses of recycled paper compared to virgin paper.
Through previous research, I have already found that the quality of recycled paper, is no different to the quality of virgin papers. with this in mind, I began looking into the expenses of recycled paper.
I looked into the manufacturing costs of recycled paper and found that it is more expensive to recycle paper, than it is to make virgin paper. Now I think about it, I’m not surprised that it is more costly to manage recycled paper. The price of paper is constantly changing, but at this current time, recycled paper can cost up to 10% more than virgin papers.

I found out through a recycling website, that most of the UK’s waste paper, is sent to Asia for recycling, instead of being recycled here. This must surely be a costly effort which is the first contributing factor towards raised prices in recycled paper.

Virgin papers are produced on a much larger scale than recycled paper, this is a contributing factor towards prices because the type of machinery required for each is different. Virgin paper machinery is much larger, allowing more paper to be made in a shorter amount of time.
This BBC Article written in 2009, explains that many factors, such as global warming, and changes in the global economy have quite a dramatic effect on the costs of recycling paper.

I understand that recycling is heavily encouraged and considered to be a great thing for the environment, but I think that the real facts about the process, are somewhat shadowed by the encouragement to do something good and recycle.
As the economy changes, the prices of recycled paper increase and decrease, making it unsteady. For businesses and companies who must meet tight budgets, it would be a risky choice to make the decision to use recycled paper when it is uncertain as to what the cost is. This means that continuing to use virgin papers within the business would be the ‘safe option’ and thus making it more favourable.
I cant imagine that this factor would affect small companies so much, but larger companies have more of an impact on the percentage of recycled and virgin papers used in the industry today.