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 … 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.