Cardboard and paper
Cardboard and paper are sent to be further sorted and then onto paper mills where the fibres are broken down and then reformed into new products. You can recycle all sorts of paper and card items including flattened cardboard packaging boxes, cereal boxes, junk mail, magazines, newspapers and cartons.
Recycled into:
A cardboard box could be recycled into items like a cereal box or egg box. Paper is recycled into new paper items such as newspapers. Paper that’s been recycled several times before will often then be used to manufacture tissue products. Tissue products cannot be recycled but can be composted in your home compost bin (depending what you’ve used it for).
Where:
After being sorted further at UK sorting facilities, our cardboard and paper is sent on to paper mills in the UK to be recycled into new paper products.
Did you know – a newspaper can be recycled into a new newspaper seven times and it only takes one week from your old newspaper being collected in your recycling bin to you receiving it back as a brand new newspaper again.