Abstract: The invention relates to a method for inhibiting and eliminating adhesive impurities, so-called stickies, from waste paper preparations or paper pulp containing prepared waste paper in the paper industry by using classic sorting- and dispersion equipment and a flotation unit consisting of one or more flotation stages containing deinking froth. In the course of preparing the waste paper for making a paper pulp which is fed to a paper machine, a hydrophobized synthetic or natural mineral is added to the pulp before or during its introduction into the paper machine, causing the microstickies to be adsorbed by the added hydrophobized mineral and removed by same from the flotation unit via the deinking froth.