County
- Asbestos
- Batteries
- Books
- Cardboard
- Chemicals and paints
- DIY waste, rubble and building materials
- Electronic and electrical equipment
- Flat glass (greenhouse. windows etc)
- Garden waste
- Gas bottles
- Glass bottles and jars
- Household and garden chemicals and paints
- Ink cartridges
- Items for reuse
- Light bulbs & flourescent lighting tubes
- Metals – Cans, Foil & Scrap
- Newspapers and magazines
- Oil - cooking oil
- Oil - waste engine oil
- Paper
- Plastic bottles
- Soil
- Textiles and clothes
- Tyres
- Wood and timber
Paper
Where it is taken?
Smiths (Gloucester) Ltd, Smiths Moreton Valance, Gloucester
What happens to it?
At Smiths the paper is baled and sent for recycling at a Paper Mill in Leicestershire. There the paper is added to water and chemicals, put through tiny screens to remove contamination such as staples, bleached and then fed into a paper machine that removes the water and rolls the paper into flat rolls. It is then cut to size and used as recycled paper, or to make cardboard.
End market
UK
End products
Recycled paper
Page updated:
15/11/2022
Page updated by:
Gloucestershire County Council