Paper and cardboard
Paper and carboard goes in your blue sack.
Collected every week.
You can pick up sacks from your local stockist.
Use this for
- Card and cardboard boxes
- Egg cartons
- Toilet roll tubes
- Cereal boxes
- Toothpaste boxes
- Paper
- Newspapers and magazines
- Envelopes and letters
- Printer paper and shredded paper
Small amounts of shredded paper, like receipts and bills, can be put in a container made of card or paper, such as a paper bag, then put in your sack.
If we are expecting dry weather, you can put large amounts of shredded paper in a cardboard box next to your recycling containers for collection.
Do not use this for
- Food and drink cartons, like Tetra Pak
- Polystyrene
- Plastic film or packaging
- Wallpaper
- Wrapping paper
- Tissues, paper towels and kitchen roll
- Sanitary products
- Plastic carrier bags or bin bags
