Paper Recycling Service from Greenaway Group
As part of the Landfill Directive regulations that have come into effect, all non-liquid trade waste has to be pre-treated before any of it can be disposed of as landfill. Segregating paper
waste from general waste ensures that all paper is diverted from landfill and recycled. Let Greenaway Group collect and recycle your paper waste.
Why Recycle Paper?
In the UK today, nearly 5 million tonnes of paper is being dumped in landfill or incinerated each year. This means that the industry has to import fibre to meet its needs, which does not make environmental or economic sense. Paper and packaging make up huge proportions of most municipal and commercial waste streams and therefore the paper industry is the UK's largest recycler. We have known for many years that, having done its job once, paper can again be used as reclaimed fibre to make new materials for the market place. Paper recycling was happening long before the environment became a big issue and it is a cost effective means of acquiring raw material.
What Happens To It?
Paper that is sent to landfill will rot very slowly in the landfill site and will remain there for at least 10 years whilst producing methane. Paper that is recycled is sent to a paper mill. The ink is washed off and then the paper is pulped by mixing it up with water. The pulp is then dried and flattened to make new sheets of paper.
A single piece of paper can contain new fibres as well as fibres which have already been recycled once, twice, or more. Papermaking fibre can typically be recycled 5-7 times before they become too short to be recycled again.
Making recycled paper instead of new paper uses 64 percent less energy and uses 58 percent less water.
Recycling one ton of paper typically saves about 6.7 cubic yards of landfill space.
Worldwide, over 95 million metric tons of paper is recovered each year to be made into recycled paper and paperboard. Recovered fibre makes up over one-third of the total fibre used to make the world's paper.
Recovery of office paper has more than doubled since 1998. In 1996, 3,810,000 tons of office paper was recovered, up from 1,600,000 tons in 1990.
Resources Saved Per Ton of Paper Recycled
Please contact Greenaway Group on 0800 292 2130 if you have any paper recycling requirements.
