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Despite local and national campaigns aimed at promoting recycling and the reuse of recyclable materials, the CPI has released figures that illustrate a decline in the use of recovered paper across the UK.
The federation reported that last year, the UK only produced just over 5.2 million tonnes of paper and board, a 6.4% reduction on the total recorded for 2006. With regards to raw material input, UK paper and board mills used just under 4.1 million tonnes of recovered paper, a decline of 3.0% against 2006 usage.
They were also keen to point out that the sudden decrease could be due to the closure of two paper mills in 2007, who between them represented around 250,000 tonnes of capacity.