Paper Recycling

The vast majority of Excel Fibre Technology’s fibre products are manufactured from recycled newsprint (the exception being special grade/colour fibres, which demand very pure or specific raw material stock). This newsprint is collected in a number of ways, including kerBBAde collections operated in conjunction with local authorities. A major benefit to local authorities in operating such schemes is the contribution it makes to meeting their recycling targets.

Newspaper is collected from households in this way by Excel’s own ‘PaperSaver’ collection vans. In addition, newspapers are sourced through community collection schemes operated by such organisations as the Scout movement, schools and various other charities and societies help to raise funds for these groups that go back into benefiting the communities in which they are based.

Once collected, the newspaper is processed and re-engineered to give it the required structure and properties needed for its end application.

Completing the Loop
In the case of Warmcel insulation, the recycled newspaper actually goes full circle and ends up back in people’s homes from whom it was collected – thereby completing the ‘virtuous circle’. When the insulation is finally removed, it can simply be collected, combed for impurities and reprocessed, maintaining the recycling chain even further.

Other end uses that also often end up back in people’s homes are renders, mastics, adhesives and paints. In some other applications, the recycled paper is used in applications close to its original source or directly benefiting the people who supplied it, along with local authorities committed to the recycling programme. Such applications include road making and grass seed mulch.

Environment Safe
Being biodegradable and free from harmful or toxic substances, such as CFCs and VOCs or soil contaminants (including copper, nickel and zinc), Excel fibre poses no threat to the environment.