Recycling for newspapers

Press, 22 July 1980, Page 13

Recycling for newspapers

Old newspapers need no, longer be sent to the dump,} now that a major North] Island recycling programme; has extended to Christchurch.] The Canterbury Paper; Company has won a contract] from N.Z. Forest Products to! deliver to Kinleith for re-i cycling any amount of old! newspaper arid printers off-i cuts; The old paper will be; pulped - and refined before] being made into a form of; hard cardboard, such as Whakatane'board,--'' ! The managing director of] the company (Mr G. 'Skjel-! lerup) said that paper re-i cycling in Christchurch had! until now been an uncertain; business. A certain amount] of old papers had been used! for household insulation.; This had been an unsatfsfac-j tory market, however, and! many local groups arid; clubs had been left with! stacks of newspapers on; their hands. The Kinleith process was; not a new one. North Island; waste paper had been re-; cycled on a large scale for] about three years, Mr Skjel-j lerup said. It seemed that re-i

hcently there had been a short,]fall of northern waste; coinciding with favourable cartage rates offered bv the Railways, allowing Forest] ■ I Products to look south. I "I The Christchurch company! :]would accept paper,- and] r-compress it into bales which! •! could be freighted. Mr! I: Skjellerup believed it would; Inot be long before no old :; newspapers were dumped. Any community group, : isuch as scouts or a school, ;; could collect the paper and jhis company would pay for jit The project was a long■!term one which could even•itually include other com--11 panies in other cities. Waii;mairi County, which accepted J piled paper, would be asked 11 to supply the recycling ! scheme, rather than the ■j dump. ! The new company offers $26 a tonne for old newspaper. Commercial waste will ;be the subject of negotiation. ■The recycling would permit ; Forest Products to export ■ more valuable fibres which ; would otherwise be required ■ internally, Mr Skjellerup said, i “The conservationists ! should be thrilled,” he said.