From bin to box plant: the journey of a recycled newspaper
STUFF Follow a Dominion Post newspaper as it travels through the Oji recycling plant in Seaview, Wellington, and then on to the paper mill in Auckland. Every weekday, around 31,000 copies of the Dominion Post are torn from their packaging, their words consumed by hungry eyes over coffee, or propped up on a knee on the train to work. On Saturdays, that number climbs to 38,000. Environmentally-conscious readers will put it in a recycling bin when they’re done with the crossword. But what happens after that? Kate Green follows a copy of the Dominion Post from the bin to a new life.