UK mill specification
ALL DELIVERIES OF WASTE PAPER MUST BE:
a) Free from contaminates such as Carbon Paper, Bitumen, Foil Laminates (supermarket
commodity packaging, tea, coffee, biscuits etc.,) Plastic Laminates (company reports, year end
accounts, high quality periodical magazines etc.,) Synthetic Papers (chocolate wrappers etc..)
Wet strength material including but not exclusive of labels and posters. Any material with self-adhesive glues (e.g. self seal envelopes, adhesive labels, stickers and adhesive tapes), Waxed
Paper, Free Gift Inserts in Magazines.
b) Free from contraries such as, but not restricted to Oil, Grease, Rags, Sand and Building
Materials, Metal, String and other Bindings, Rubbish of any description.
News & Pams
Post Consumer mixed newspapers, periodicals and magazines. The Pam content must not represent
less than 20% by weight of the total load and not more than 50% by weight of the total load.
Contaminant Level -Not more than 2% (by weight of the load or bale)
Contraries Level – None
The mill will perform a visual inspection of each baled load which will determine the next action in the
process, by the quality department, these being:
Load accepted without warning
Load accepted with warning
Load rejected outright
The basis of the mill inspection is determined by visual contamination. The levels of visual
contamination allowed by the mill for each individual inspection are listed as below:
UNSUITABLE COMPONENTS
WARNING
REJECT
Brown Cardboard (A4 size) Corruguated & Flat (brown only)
20-25
26
Tetrapak
7-10
11
Plastic Bottles
7-10
11
Tin & Aluminium Cans
7-10
11
Supplements in Plastic Covers
20-25
26
A4 Laminated Magazines/Card
20-25
26
Glass Bottles
6-9
10
Pieces of Textiles
6-9
10
If the mill is happy with the presentation of the load, then they will be happy with the load.
It is therefore vital that the load is presented clean and tidy to a standard that will pass the above
inspection process.