Both Oxford city council and Waverley borough council will provide old newspapers and magazines to Aylesford, collected both through kerbside recycling schemes and bank collection facilities.
 Andrew Perkins of Aylesford Newsprint (centre) and Gillian Clark, recycling officer for Waverley, celebrate the new recovered paper supply contract with a local council representative. |
The contract with Waverley, in Surrey, continues a relationship that has run since 1994, during which time a new kerbside collection service has been introduced. Last year, Waverley supplied more than 5,000 tonnes of recovered material to Aylesford. The new contract will run for a five-year period.
Oxford city council has supplied Aylesford for the last seven years, operating a kerbside collection scheme and a paper bank scheme, which last year resulted in the diversion of 3,459 tonnes of recovered paper into the Aylesford mill.
Commenting on these two new contracts, Aylesford commercial manager Chris White said: “Working together and forming partnerships with local authorities have always been at the heart of Aylesford Newsprint's operation. We have always recognised the need to listen to and work with all of the parties involved within the recycling chain; from the householder upwards, everyone in the recycling process needs to be considered to ensure the best processes are instigated.
“Our contracts reflect this, providing long-term support and security for those who need it. Our dedicated Area Managers are on-hand to help with collection and supply queries and also to provide financial, marketing and practical assistance,” Mr White added.
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 best known newspapers currently available.
In real terms, the Aylesford mill now claims to recycle one in every seven newspapers bought in the UK, from which it produces 1% of the world’s annual newsprint consumption (40 million tonnes).
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