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Stamps – Can it be recycled?

March 1st, 2009 @ // No Comments

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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Shredded paper – Can it be recycled?

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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.

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Wrapping Paper – Can it be recycled?

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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.

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Cardboard Boxes – Can it be recycled?

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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!

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Magazines – Can it be recycled?

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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.

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