Newspaper Lifecycle and Reuse
We seek to:
Provide benchmarking data on the compositions and flows of newspapers through the UK economy. This research aims at quantifying the mass flows, material accounts and environmental impacts of the whole newspaper life-cycle.
Provide more robust data on environmental impact of de-inking sludge utilisation
"to provide objective evidence on environmental risks to support markets for constructive re-use and exploitation of paper mill residues, and to support scientifically-robust policy making."
Special attention is focused on developing new beneficial reuses for de-inking sludges through converting them into a peat replacement for use in plant growth media.
- Mass Balance of UK Newspapers
- Understanding Recovered Paper Markets
- Newspapers, Metals & The Environment
- Heavy Metals in Newspapers: A Longitudinal Study
- Composting Paper Mill Sludges
- Composted Paper Mill Wastes as a Peat Substitute
- Aesthetic, structural & ecological properties of industrial by-products
The research was carried out under the Newspaper Industry Environmental Technology Initiative . Sponsors include: Bridgewater Paper Co. Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Europe, StoraEnso, Sun Chemical, Usher-Walker, Patersons Quarries, Biffaward
In-vessel composting of de-inking sludge at the University of the West of Scotland
Simulating rainfall in pilot-scale leaching of a newspaper de-inking sludge stockpile
