Making paper | New Zealand Geographic
Newsprint is the biggest source of paper waste in New Zealand. We manufacture more than 300,000 tonnes of newsprint each year, all of it at Tasmans pulp and paper mill in Kawerau. Sixty per cent of this paper mountain is exported, a significant quantity finding its way into Aus#173;tralia. About a tenth of the newsprint output ends up in telephone and other directories; the rest is turned into