The company said that its depot in Oswestry, Shropshire, has now started handling waste paper from local authorities and distribution centres across the UK.
The site also handles some plastic, but its input is predominantly paper which is sorted and graded before shipment to paper mills throughout the UK, Europe and Asia.
Alex Pinson, commercial director of Papersort UK, said: “The name change is more in keeping with the work we now do nationally in the UK and will help in growing our contract purchasing nationwide and supply opportunities world-wide through RUK group sales.
“We have moved away from being a local processing company we have grown the tonnages being handled to more than 1500 tonnes per week through the Oswestry site.”
The company took over its current site from the Davies family in 2012 with its tonnage being collected mostly from Shropshire, Cheshire, The Midlands, the North and Mid Wales.
It has grown substantially through the winning and servicing of several national supply contracts and the additionally tonnage has been channelled through the Oswestry site and other third-party processing plants throughout the UK.
The company own Recycling UK which has its headquarters in Tarporley Near Chester.
Alongside its national recycling activities, Recycling UK trades 400,000 tonnes of recovered paper, packaging materials, reels and other recovered materials.
The group manages the recycling at several large industrial sites such as printers and packaging companies.
It also buys substantial quantities of recovered paper in Ireland for shipment worldwide.
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