ENVIRONMENTALLY-friendly residents throughout the borough have helped a recycling mill become the largest in the country.
UPM Shotton works with Bury Council to buy the recovered magazine, newspapers and junk mails collected from kerbside schemes and recycle it into newsprint which it then sells back to local and national newspapers across the country.
Recyclers in Bury contributed more than 4,000 tonnes of paper to the mill during the past year, an increase of 1,000 tonnes on the previous 12 months.
This boost has helped the company to more than double the quantity of paper it recycles one year on from its switch to 100 per cent recycled paper.
Martin Green, head of recovered paper procurement said: "This has been a major success for UPM Shotton and recycling in the UK, enabling us to use the recycled paper from a further four million homes. Everyone that participates in their local authority recycling scheme is part of this fantastic success story."
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