The “innovative” contract will see Aylesford designing and building a new bulking facility for storing the newspaper and magazines collected from the council's kerbside collection service as well as paper bank schemes.
 In agreement (left to right): Karen Newell of Aylesford Newsprint, council officer Roy Probert, Cllr John Hague, Martin Jones of the Swansea Waste Disposal Company, council officer Tony Glacken and Chris White of Aylesford Newsprint. |
The deal should see about 750 tonnes of material a month from the Welsh council going for recycling at Aylesford's mill in Kent.
Aylesford said the new venture would ensure the quality of used newspapers and magazines supplied by the council, explaining that with its new bulking facility it will be able to guarantee no contamination of the paper occurs. The 150,000 facility is to be built at the Swansea Baling Plant, currently managed by the Swansea City Waste Disposal Company, and should also ensure the collected paper keeps dry during storage.
Commenting on the contract, Aylesford commercial manager Chris White said: “We are very pleased to be helping Swansea in such a way. The new facility will be a specific building for storing newspapers and magazines, which is great news for us as it will ensure the quality of the supplied material.”
At the end of the contract with Aylesford, the bulking facility is to become the property of Swansea council.
Joint-owned by SCA Forest Products and Mondi Europe, Aylesford Newsprint recycles about 500,000 tonnes of used newspapers and magazines each year to produce “Renaissance”, its premium-grade newsprint for European newspaper publishers.
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