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Aylesford Newsprint reaches paper milestone


L-R: Mr Murray (the Mayor’s husband), Cllr Sue Murray, David Campbell-Lenaghan, the council’s waste & street scene management officer, and Ayleford’s Gemma Barratt
Aylesford Newsprint has celebrated recycling the 60,000th tonne of paper collected by Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council's kerbside green box scheme.

To mark the event, the council's Mayor Cllr Sue Murray was invited to tour Aylesford's mill, which is located just outside Maidstone in Kent. "It was an amazing sight to see the paper from the green box scheme being pulped and to realise that every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees," she said, adding: "This means that residents in Tonbridge and Malling have saved over one million trees in the past 10 years."

Aylesford Newsprint is one of only four paper mills based in the UK that manufactures 100% recycled newsprint from recovered newspapers and magazines. The process requires good quality recovered paper to ensure that the end product meets the specification of newspaper publishing houses.

The company grades the paper supplied by local authorities and waste management companies on a range of 0 (very poor) to 6 (very high quality). Over the past six months, the quality of the paper supplied by Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council has achieved an average of 5.34, which puts it within Aylesford Newsprint's top five suppliers.

Gemma Barratt, area manager for Aylesford Newsprint, commented: "The paper that we receive from the Tonbridge and Malling kerbside collections is of an excellent quality. It is important that we work with our suppliers to ensure that their collection methods are practical and yet ensure low levels of contamination."

Posted on 12 March 2010  


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