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AYLESFORD NEWSPRINT TO RECEIVE MORE QUALITY PAPER AS ASHFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS KERBSIDE COLLECTION
Wednesday 04. May 2011 - More recovered paper, collected by Ashford Borough Council via its Blue Box recycling scheme, will now be transformed into quality newsprint at Aylesford Newsprints paper mill.
Between February and April 2011, 9,000 additional homes across the borough, including urban parts of Ashford and villages in Smarden, Rolvenden, Smallhythe, Wittersham, Brabourne and Smeeth, have received a Blue Box enabling them to recycle a variety of items including paper, on the kerbside. New and existing box owners will also receive information on how to use the boxes and dates of collections to help encourage more recycling in the area.
Aylesford Newsprint manufactures 100% recycled newsprint and is one of the UKs leading reprocessors of recovered paper. Since launching as Aylesford Newsprint more than 15 years ago, the Kent-based mill has gained a reputation for the manufacture of excellent quality recycled paper and supplies newsprint to newspaper publishing houses throughout Europe.
With the expansion of the scheme, Ashford Borough Council aims to not only increase recycling rates but also to help residents move towards a greener way of thinking. Mick Pearce, responsible for Street Scene and Open Spaces at Ashford Borough Council, said: “Reprocessing Ashfords recovered paper at Aylesford Newsprint is a logical step towards improving our recycling rates. As an efficient reprocessor Aylesford will help us deliver these improvements through an environmentally sound method.
“We are also pleased to continue expanding our recycling scheme with Aylesford due to its proximity to the borough as this will help reduce the councils fuel consumption and importantly, our carbon footprint too.”
Aylesford Newsprint recycles more than 500,000 tonnes of used newspapers and magazines each year in order to manufacture 400,000 tonnes of premium quality newsprint suitable for the production of many of the countrys best-known newspapers. The Aylesford mill, near Maidstone in Kent, recycles one in every seven newspapers bought in the UK.
Aylesford Newsprint recycles 500,000 tonnes per annum of used newspapers and magazines in the manufacture of Renaissance; a 100% recycled newsprint which is used by a large number of leading UK and European newspaper publishers.
Aylesford Newsprint is a joint venture company between SCA Forest Products and Mondi Company.
Newsprint has been produced at the Aylesford Mill since 1922 and 100% recycled newsprint has been continuously manufactured at this plant from 1984.