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What happens next?

What happens to my Recycling after I have finished with it?

Paper

• Your paper is collected from the kerbside or bring bank site by local authorities, waste management companies or recovered paper merchants;
  
• The paper is sorted into different grades. Each grade has a different use according to its quality;
  
• Once sorted, the paper is baled according to type. Did you know that there are over 50 grades of waste paper?
  
• The baled paper is sent to a paper mill;
  
• The sorted wastepaper is cleaned by a process called de-inking and then broken down in large quantities to form a "porridge" where large contaminants are removed;
  
• The fibres (paper strands) are then refined and additives included to give particular qualities to the end paper;
  
• What you threw away is ready to be made into paper.

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