Newspapers and magazines hold their own as overall figures slide

摘要

UK consumption of recovered paper jumped by more than 20,000 tonnes in October this year but, by contrast, mill production dipped 3.2 percent during the month to push the cumulative total for the first 10 months of 2004 below that for the corresponding period last year. Once again, Class III newspapers and magazines was largely responsible for the 5.2 percent increase in recovered paper consumption to 410,572 tonnes during October this year. Consumption of this class surged 19.7 percent higher in the tenth month to 126,058 tonnes to take the running total for January- October 2004 to 1.235 million tonnes - a whopping 23.1 percent ahead of the 1.003m tonnes registered in the same period last year.