Paper & Card

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Overview

Paper and card wastes include any single one or mixture of the following: Paper, card, board, board/plastic composites and other paper composite products. Most of this waste arises from offices and packaging[1].

Due to the fact paper and card are derived from trees it is important that, if it is to be sustainable, paper and card waste is recycled so the rate at which these materials are used does not exceed the rate at which the trees can grow[1].

In addition to recycling, a significant portion of paper and card waste is sent to energy recovery facilities, totaling 566,000 tonnes in 2014[2]. ‌

Macro Tonnages

The most recent information published by DEFRA [3] [4]is summarized in the pie chart below, with 6,989,853 tonnes of paper & cardboard wastes generated in the UK in 2016 as part of the broader tonnage reported in UK Waste Tonnage:

Paper and Cardboard Wastes
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Data Table
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF) 8,425
Mining and Quarrying (MQ) 1,168
Industrial (Ind) 1,329,827
Construction (Con) 20,000
Commercial (Com) 4,535,548
Household (HH) 1,094,886


The macro numbers above under report the total paper & card put into the market as the macro numbers exclude tonnage in mixed categories. The macro numbers also do not breakdown the component elements of paper & card, but the following headers in the page are the materials as handled by local authorities and as reported through WasteDataFlow.

Books

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 500 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.


Authority Stream Facility Operator Address Material Tonnes
Bromley LB Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Multiple destinations Multiple Books 1,537.94 {{{date}}}
West Sussex County Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) DS Smith Paper Ltd Kemsley Paper Mill, Kemsley, Sittingbourne, Kent Books 947.36 {{{date}}}
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Other/Exempt JMP WILCOX & CO LTD, BELDRAY WORKS, BELDRAY ROAD BILSTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WEST MIDLANDS , WV14 7NH Books 713.07 {{{date}}}
Birmingham City Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Other/Exempt Books Wilcox Beldray Works, Beldray Road, Bilston, Wolverhampton WV14 7NHTetiles and footwear a number of charities Books 669.23 {{{date}}}
Wandsworth LB Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Other/Exempt Chris Carey's CollectionsRaymond HouseCricket LaneBeckenhamKentBR3 1LW Books 574.99 {{{date}}}
East Riding of Yorkshire Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Other/Exempt Wilcox Industrial Supply Co. Beldray Works, Beldray Road Bilston, West Midlands WV14 7NH Books 527.00 {{{date}}}

Card

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 10000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.


Authority Stream Facility Operator Address Material Tonnes
Worcestershire County Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Dew Mr David & Dew Mr Jonathan Unit 100, Blackpole Road, Blackpole Trading Estate, Worcester, Worcestershire Card 33,990.98 {{{date}}}
Birmingham City Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Smurfit Kappa UK Ltd Mount Street, Nechells, Birmingham Card 18,203.36 {{{date}}}
Bristol City Council Source segregated recyclate Exporter - recycling (qu19) Kier M G Limited Bristol Waste Recycling Facility, Albert Road, St Philips, Bristol, Avon Card 12,732.40 {{{date}}}

Mixed Paper & Card

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 10000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.


Authority Stream Facility Operator Address Material Tonnes

Paper

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 7000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.


Authority Stream Facility Operator Address Material Tonnes
Somerset Waste Partnership Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) DS Smith Paper Ltd Kemsley Paper Mill, Kemsley, Sittingbourne, Kent Paper 9,979.69 {{{date}}}
Lancashire County Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Recycling Lives Ltd D1/ D2 Longridge Road, Red Scar Bus Park, Preston, Lancashire Paper 8,725.31 {{{date}}}
Vale of Glamorgan Council Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Cowbridge Compost Ltd The Lodge, Llwynhelig, Gibbots Hill, Cowbridge, Vale Of Glamorgan Paper 8,502.31 {{{date}}}
Pembrokeshire County Council Comingled recyclate Materials recovery facility A J Recycling Ltd Meigan Wells, Blaenfodd, Boncath, Pembrokeshire Paper 7,459.55 {{{date}}}
St Helens MBC Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Biffa Waste Services Ltd Pocket Nook Resource Management Centre, Pocket Nook Street, St Helens, Warrington, Cheshire Paper 7,451.41 {{{date}}}

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 DEFRA, 2011. ARCHIVE: Waste Management Advisor - Paper and card (clean). [online] adlib.everysite.co.uk. [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019].
  2. WRAP, 2016. Final Report - Paper and Card Flow 2020. [online]
  3. Digest of Waste Resources 2018 reporting data from 2016
  4. UK Statistics on Waste 2019 updating some of the 2018 Digest with 2017 data