Paper
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- Phone Directories
- Laminated Paper
- Tetrapak
- Books
- Cardboard
- Chip Wrappings
- Hygiene Products
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Why not try reading the newspapers online?
Only print out work if it is absolutely necessary.
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Ensure that you print on both sides of the paper. Buy recycled paper products wherever possible. Remember recycling is not just collecting materials and taking them to the recycling bank, it is about "closing the loop" and buying recycled too.
Reuse envelopes by using sticky labels to write an address.
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Can be recycled at:
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Paper forms a great proportion of our household waste. As it is biodegradable it therefore produces methane as it rots in landfill, which is a potent greenhouse gas (20 times more potent than carbon dioxide).
Manufacturing recycled paper is much cleaner than making paper from virgin wood fibres, it usese less water and less energy and produces fewer polluting emissions to air (95% reduction in air pollution).
The Recycling Process
All inks, glues, staples, plastic film etc. are washed out with soapy water. Cleaned paper pulp is sent to a paper-making machine where it is injected between two wire meshes to form a damp sheet, before passing through hot drying cylinders.
What happens next?
New papers could be coming back to you, in the newsagents or through your door, within three to four weeks.
All the paper collected by Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council goes to the Shotton Paper Mill just up the road in North Wales, they are the largest manufacturer of newsprint in the UK, so the chances are if you have read a newspaper in recent weeks it was printed on recycled paper from this very mill.
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