Abstract: A process for the manufacture of paper pulp from waste paper in which the waste paper is comminuted in water in a pulper, pre-cleaned for removal of coarse foreign contaminants, dewatered, kneaded at high concentration, diluted, after-cleaned for removal of finer or coherent soft foreign contaminants and adjusted to a concentration suitable for paper-making, the water respectively used for dilution and obtained during dewatering being circulated in two separate circuits upstream and downstream respectively of the kneading apparatus.