Smurfit Kappa Recycling plans to meet with local authorities to explain how its mixed paper grade service can increase recycling rates, while private sector visitors will be privy to information regarding money saving packaging recycling solutions.
Smurfit Kappa Recycling, a paper mills operator in Kent and Birmingham, offers recyclers a reliable market for various types of recovered board and papers so that companies may produce and sell packaging that can wind up on retailers’ shelves. Not surprisingly, both public and private sectors are becoming away of the programme’s benefits.
Smurfit Kappa Recycling, a member of PaperChain and the UK Campaign for Real Recycling, can show local authorities how they can maximise the types of paper based materials routinely collected from drop off locations and kerbside collection via the company’s “mixed paper” grade service. Mixed paper is not limited to newsprint. It can include magazines, envelopes, cardboard, newspapers, Yellow Pages, directories, and fibre-based packaging materials including cereal boxes.
Simon Weston, managing director at Smurfit Kappa Recycling, said: “From our experience of working with councils we have found that mixed paper collection schemes can significantly improve the amount of waste being recycled in an area, because they are easy for residents to understand. The more inclusive a scheme, the more packaging and paper waste that can be diverted from landfill sites.”
Simon Weston said, “Our paper mills reprocess over 500,000 tonnes of material annually. Collecting high quality material close to home, and then reprocessing it at UK mills, is clearly in the best interests of society, the environment and UK industry.”
For more information, visit: smurfitkappa-recycling.co.uk
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