Paper recycling

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.

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