SHOTTON paper mill owner UPM has struck a long-term deal with waste management company, PHS Special Contracts, to reprocess all of its rejected material into valuable products.
The paper mill already recycles 650,000 tonnes of recovered paper each year, and now mixed waste materials from its pulping process will be cleaned and reprocessed to make recycled plastic products such as railway sleepers and furniture.
Andrew Bronnert, head of energy and utilities at UPM Shotton, said: “We are now really heading towards zero waste from the site.”
