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| "When you've read it, Recycle it"
For the next three months, anyone living in Hampshire will be aware of a campaign to encourage them to recycle magazines, catalogues, brochures and newspapers. The message "When you’ve read it, recycle it" will be appearing on posters and in various publications throughout the county. "We would like to increase the amount of paper collected for recycling," says Bob Lisney speaking on behalf of the Beacon waste scheme, Project Integra. "All magazines, catalogues, brochures and newspapers can be put into the home collection schemes which 78% of households in the county now have, or they can be taken to supermarket banks or household waste recycling centres. At the moment we only get about half for recycling, and we would like as much as possible; we think it is perhaps because people are uncertain as to what paper can be recycled. Our message is: don’t worry, give it to us and we will sort it out." When recyclables have been collected they are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility, run by Hampshire Waste Services Ltd, a partner in Project Integra, and co-sponsors of this campaign. Here the different materials are sorted by a series of mechanical and hand sorting methods; the sorted materials are then sent for processing and manufacture. The sorted magazines and newspapers are sent to the paper mill in Kent where Aylesford Newsprint Ltd, also sponsoring the campaign, manufacture them into newsprint.At Aylesford, following the de-inking, cleaning and pulping process, the recycled paper is manufactured into premium quality newsprint which is supplied to leading European newspaper publishers. Aylesford Newsprint recycle 500,000 tonnes per annum of used magazines and newspapers.Says Sandra Warnock-Horn, Communications Manager for Aylesford Newsprint , "It is important to include a proportion of magazine waste with the newspapers when producing high quality recycled newsprint. The virgin fibres and the clay found in magazine paper play an important part in the recycling and manufacturing process of newsprint. Hampshire have supplied Aylesford Newsprint with recovered magazines and newspapers for recycling over the last six years."Hampshire residents are already recycling 32,000 tonnes of magazines and newspapers a year, but the same amount is being put into the general rubbish, and ends up being buried. If householders could separate all their magazines, catalogues, brochures and newspapers and put them in the recycling bin provided by their local council, they would be reducing the amount of rubbish being buried, saving raw wood pulp and reducing the cost of disposal. So, look out for the posters when you travel, and remember - "When
you’ve read it, recycle it!" - Ends – 2 May 2001 For more information about this campaign, please contact Angela Bethell or Anne Green-Wilkinson at Hampshire County Council on either 01962 847026 or 01962 846629. |
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