Reception apparatus and recycling leaves.

A sheet receiving apparatus including an input (1) for receiving one or more sheets; a transport system (20, 80) for extracting leaves the entry; a first detector (50) for detecting the passage of a foreign object with the transported (s) sheet (s) (s); one or more additional detectors (23) for monitoring sheets fed by the transport system; at least one reservoir (207) for storing accepted sheets; and responsive to the detector controller (90) for controlling the transport system, characterized in that the transport system is controllable to divert a foreign object detected at a position foreign object collection (85); and that the apparatus further includes a diverter (235) to divert unacceptable to a starting position (236) leaves.