Mar 19, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Aylesford Newsprint has appointed Andrew Perkins as head of its recycling department. The announcement follows current Commercial Manager Chris White’s appointment as Managing Director of a new plastics recycling company. Andrew Perkins took over the role in March 2010, company said in a statement received by Lesprom Network. In this new position he will lead the recycling team at Aylesford who work with local authorities, waste management companies, paper merchants, the community sector and other organisations to secure the 500,000 tonnes per year of recovered paper required by the Aylesford process. Before joining Aylesford Newsprint Andrew worked for BIFFA as a Depot Manager in the dry waste collection division and was involved in putting out the first paperbanks for the then SCA-owned paper mill at Aylesford. He joined Aylesford Newsprint as a Recycling Development Executive in March 1994, and helped to build its recovered paper supplies from 100,000 a year to the 500,000 tonnes a year needed by the mill’s expansion in May 1995. Over the years he has performed several roles at Aylesford including taking over the management of the administration function and the Recovered Fibre Store (the undercover warehouse into which all 500,000 tonnes of recovered paper are delivered). For the last decade he has been Chris White’s right hand man and shares his commitment to providing a high quality raw material to the mill. “When I started at Aylesford most of our supplies came from paper banks – our own blue banks and those of local authority and charity schemes,” said Andrew Perkins. “That’s all changed now. Kerbside schemes are the largest providers of tonnage and long term contracts are the norm. “These changes have required us to evolve; developing an expert understanding of kerbside collection methods and establishing what infrastructure and support is needed to generate the material we can use. We have also had to develop the expertise to enter the local authority tendering processes.”