Paper and cardboard recycling
What paper and cardboard items you can recycle at home.
What you can recycle at home
Put these in your recycling bin:
- newspapers, magazines and catalogues
- cardboard cartons including foil-lined cartons
- telephone directories and business directories
- envelopes, including envelopes with windows
- junk mail
- office paper, including coloured paper
- wrapping paper (only if it tears like paper)
- books, both hardback and paperback
- shredded paper
- cardboard including flattened boxes. If large, flattened cardboard boxes don’t fit inside your container, stack them next to your container.
- corrugated card
- egg boxes
- paper and card greeting cards