Method for eliminating stickies from treatment of waste paper using hydrophobized minerals

Method for eliminating or inhibiting adhesive impurities comprising microstickies and macrostickies, from paper pulp during the preparation process of waste paper in the paper industry, which process treating the waste paper, uses grading equipment which grades by size, shape and density, dispersing equipment, and one-or multistage floatation units in which print ink and dirt particles are to be eliminated via a deinking froth, comprising the steps of adding, a hydrophobized synthetic or natural mineral being sufficiently hydrophobic as to preclude the dispersion of the hydrophobized synthetic or natural mineral in clear water or in an alkaline or neutral fiber-free deinking formulation to the treated paper pulp before or during the introduction of the treated paper pulp into the flotation unit, to cause the microstickies to be absorbed by the added hydrophobized mineral and removed thereby from the flotation unit via the deinking froth, wherein the treated paper pulp is fed to a paper machine.