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
- comics and periodicals
- mail order catalogues
- paper bags
- junk mail
- stationery-type paper (e.g. letters, printer paper, school work)
- post cards and greetings cards
- envelopes (please remove plastic windows)
- telephone directories
- wrapping paper
- Yellow Pages
What paper can’t be recycled?
- Shredded paper
- padded envelopes
- Tetra pak type milk and juice cartons
What happens to the paper?
It’s taken to UPM Shotton papermill near Chester to be made into newspapers.
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.