Yes, you can! Take it to your nearest Recycling for Charity recycling bank.

What are cartons made from?

Beverage Cartons are a composite packaging material, in other words they are not made from paper alone but comprise of about 75 % paper, 20 % plastic (polyethylene) and 5 % aluminum foil (for long-life products).

How are they recycled?

Baled cartons are dropped into a pulper, similar to a giant domestic food mixer, filled with water and pulped for 20 minutes.  This delaminates the packaging, allowing the aluminum foil and polyethylene to be separated from the paper fibers which are recovered to make new paper products.  The non-fibre remainder can be used in a number of applications including garden furniture and roofing materials.

New plasma technology is being developed to enable the total separation of the polyethylene and aluminum. This will permit the return of all three components of the carton to the productive chain as raw material.

Yes, you can! Take it to your nearest Recycling for Charity recycling bank.

What are cartons made from?

Beverage Cartons are a composite packaging material, in other words they are not made from paper alone but comprise of about 75 % paper, 20 % plastic (polyethylene) and 5 % aluminum foil (for long-life products).

How are they recycled?

Baled cartons are dropped into a pulper, similar to a giant domestic food mixer, filled with water and pulped for 20 minutes.  This delaminates the packaging, allowing the aluminum foil and polyethylene to be separated from the paper fibers which are recovered to make new paper products.  The non-fiber remainder can be used in a number of applications including garden furniture and roofing materials.

New plasma technology is being developed to enable the total separation of the polyethylene and aluminum. This will permit the return of all three components of the carton to the productive chain as raw material.

Yes, you can … Take it to your nearest Recycling for Charity recycling bank.

What are cartons made from?

Beverage Cartons are a composite packaging material, in other words they are not made from paper alone but comprise of about 75 % paper, 20 % plastic (polyethylene) and 5 % aluminum foil (for long-life products).

How are they recycled?

Baled cartons are dropped into a pulper, similar to a giant domestic food mixer, filled with water and pulped for 20 minutes. This delaminates the packaging, allowing the aluminum foil and polyethylene to be separated from the paper fibers which are recovered to make new paper products. The non-fiber remainder can be used in a number of applications including garden furniture and roofing materials.

New plasma technology is being developed to enable the total separation of the polyethylene and aluminum. This will permit the return of all three components of the carton to the productive chain as raw material.

Yes, you can … The great news is that it’s never been easier to recycle old Yellow Pages directories, Recycling for Charity accept them for recycling, so you can put them into your nearest Recycling for Charity paper recycling bank.

What are they made from?

Yellow Pages are made of white paper and are printed with yellow and other coloured inks.

What happens when they are recycled?

Millions get turned cardboard, Jiffy bags, egg boxes and loft insulation, and some paper mills can now recycle them into newsprint.

What can I do with them?

Increasing numbers of people are giving them to schools for regional recycling competitions.

• Children simply bring old directories to school for recycling;
• Educational materials help to bring recycling and woodland conservation to life;
• Schools have fun competing for cash prizes.

Yes, you can … If they are still attached to envelopes, stamps can be recycled with the rest of your paper. Or you can collect stamps for charities.

How should I recycle stamps?

If you want to recycle your stamps for charity: find a local stamp collection scheme, at a school, supermarket or community center.

• Save all of your stamps, especially commemorative and foreign stamps.
• Cut around the stamps, leaving a 5mm border.
• Separate stamps if you can, into Bahrain and foreign boxes.

Charity schemes

Charities sell the stamps to dealers (per kilo) and use the money to fund their projects. Many charities will be glad to receive your stamps.

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Yes, you can … Bring it to your nearest Recycling for Charity paper bank.

How should I recycle it?

Recycling for Charity accept shredded paper together with your other paper items via your nearest paper bank.

• Make sure it is free of plastic.
• Don’t put it loose into open recycling boxes as it will blow away!

Understanding shredded paper issues

Please consider: Technically, shredded paper can be recycled, but some paper mills cannot take it. There are two main reasons for that:

• the average fiber length paper has decreases with shredding, and thus paper made from it will be weaker, and
• shredded paper can be difficult to handle at the mill and depending on the equipment there, it can cause maintenance problems and fire hazards.

What else can I do with it?

Avoid it!

Avoid shredding your papers – unless you are worried about confidential information getting into the wrong hands. This will make the paper more easily recyclable.

Yes, you can … Please dispose them at your nearest Recycling for Charity paper bank.

How should I recycle it?

Put it in the bags or boxes and deposit it in the appropriate recycling bank at your nearest center. 

What is it made from?

The materials that go into making some wrapping paper result in it not always being accepted for recycling:

• wrapping paper is often dyed, laminated and/or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver coloured shapes, glitter, plastics etc which cannot be recycled;
• some wrapping paper is very thin and contains few good quality fibers for recycling; and
• a lot of wrapping paper has sticky tape attached to it which makes it very difficult to recycle.

Buy recycled!

Try to buy wrapping paper made from recycled materials.

Yes, you can … Simply bring them to your nearest Recycling for Charity paper recycling bank.

What else can I do with them?

• Keep large cardboard boxes whenever you move house – even if you don’t plan to move again, your friends or neighbours might need them.
• Your local school or playgroup may use cardboard boxes for craft projects.
• Use a cardboard box to collect your other recycling in – then you won’t have to separate it later!

Yes, you can … recycle magazines along with your other paper items via your nearest Recycling for Charity paper bank.

What else can I do with them?

• Contact local doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries, or hospitals, to see if they would welcome magazine donations for their waiting rooms.
• Playschools may also be interested in taking old magazines for creative projects.

Yes, you can … recycle cards. Simply dispose them at your local Recycling for Charity recycling bank.

How should I recycle greeting cards?

Christmas cards

• Just take your Christmas cards along to your local recycling bank.
• The cards will be recycled into newspapers, power towels and writing paper.