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AYLESFORD NEWSPRINT SECURE DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL CONTRACT
Monday 29. December 2008 - Aylesford Newsprint, manufacturer of 100% recycled newsprint and one of the UK's leading reprocessors of recovered paper, has been awarded a four year contract from Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC). All of the paper recovered by the councils 128,000 households and bank collections will now be reprocessed at Aylesfords Kent mill where it will be recycled into premium quality newsprint used by publishers throughout the UK and Western Europe.
Under the arrangement, Aylesford expects to reprocess approximately 10,000 tonnes of post consumer waste paper each year. Recovered paper is the main feedstock for the Aylesford process, which produces the 100% recycled premium newsprint brand, Renaissance. Renaissance is a prime example of closed loop UK-based recycling. In total, Aylesford Newsprint reprocesses 500,000 tonnes of recovered paper each year, from which it manufactures approximately 390,000 tonnes of 100% recycled Renaissance Newsprint.
Dudley Council is committed to recycling as much of the boroughs waste as possible. It also strives to deliver high quality recovered materials to reprocessors through source segregated kerbside and bank collection schemes.
Commenting on the decision to work with Aylesford Newsprint, Paul Edmunds, Dudley Councils Waste Development Manager, said: “We have worked with Aylesford for a number of years now, so we know that they provide a quality service and we are pleased to continue working with them”.
Aylesford Newsprint Area Manager Dave Moore said: “Were pleased to have secured this contract. The high volume and superb quality of the materials we receive from Dudley is exactly what we are looking for and fits our reprocessing criteria.”
The contract is a great way to finish the year for Aylesford Newsprint, which has seen the mill secure several new contracts with a variety of local authorities. Recently Oxford City Council also extended its existing recovered paper contract to supply Aylesford with approximately 4,000 tonnes of source segregated materials annually. Dover District Council has also committed to supply paper to the Aylesford mill.
Aylesford Newsprint recycles more than 500,000 tonnes of used newspapers and magazines each year in order to manufacture on average 390,000 tonnes of recycled newsprint used in the production of many of the UKs national and regional newspapers. The Aylesford mill, near Maidstone in Kent, recycles one in every seven newspapers bought in the UK from which it produces 1% of the worlds annual newsprint consumption of 40 million tonnes.