Used paper and magazines are collected from paper banks and kerbside recycling schemes and transported to the paper mill. White paper is also collected, but the two different types are taken to different mills and recycled separately.
At the mill, conveyor belts feed the old paper into the fibre preparation plant, where it goes into the giant pulpers.
Water and chemicals are mixed with the waste paper inside the pulpers. On account of recycled material containing contaminants such as glass, staples, stones, metals etc, it must be cleaned in a further drum where an acid is added in order to do so. The soggy, mushy paper is now called pulp.The pulp is then injected between two wire meshes to form a damp paper sheet. This is dried to form the new recycled paper.The dried paper is polished and then rolled into jumbo reels, some 9.2 metres wide.