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Contact information

E-mail

customerfirst@shropshire.gov.uk

Telephone

01743 253000

Postal Address

Shropshire Council
Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6ND

Paper recycling

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What paper can currently be recycled ?

The following can be recycled using your kerbside recycling collection scheme, placed in the paperbanks at a Household Recycling Centre, or put in one of the many paperbanks located throughout Shropshire.

  • Newspapers and magazines
  • mail order catalogues
  • junk mail
  • stationery-type paper (eg. letters, printer paper, school work)
  • greetings cards
  • envelopes (not windowed or brown)
  • telephone directories
  • wrapping paper

What paper can’t be recycled?

  • Shredded paper
  • Yellow Pages directories
  • window and padded envelopes
  • milk and juice cartons

Waste paper from businesses must be disposed of as trade waste – it cannot be accepted at household recycling centres.

What happens to the paper?

It’s taken to papermills in Cheshire to be made into more paper.

Did you know?

  • Recycling one tonne of paper saves enough electricity to run an average 3 bedroom house for one year! It also saves 30,000 litres of water and 95% of air pollution (source www.wasteonline.org.uk)
  • In 2004/5 Shropshire residents recycled about 10,000 tonnes of paper- the equivalent of 170,000 trees.

Contact

Shropshire Waste Partnership
0845 678 9009
Shropshire Council
Development Services
Shirehall, Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6ND

Updates

  • Last updated: 17-Mar-2008
  • Next update: 13-Oct-2008

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