Paper & Cardboard
Acceptable Paper and Cardboard Materials
- Newspapers, Inserts, Magazines and Mail
- Cardboard (flattened) and Paperboard (food boxes)
- Office, School Paper and Books
- Milk, Juice and Soup Cartons
Prepare for Discarding - Place in Single Stream Recycling Container
- Any plastic liners must be removed
- Boxes must be flattened to save space
Do Not Recycle
- Tissue Paper
- Pet food bags
- Paper Cups
- Shredded paper (take confidential papers to shred events or consult with a shredding service company)
Paper Recycling Facts
- Typically, newspaper can be recycled 5 to 7 times.
- Production of recycled paper uses 80% less water and 65% less energy and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production.
- American businesses throw away enough scrap paper each year to fill nearly 20 Sears Towers from top to bottom, if offices throughout the country increased the rate of two-sided photocopying from the current rate of 20% to 60%, they could save the equivalent of about 15 million trees.
- Recycled paperboard is made from a combination of recycled fibers from various grades of paper stock, with 100% of its furnish being recycled fibers.
Cardboard Recycling Facts
- Three quarters of all U.S. paper recycled comes from corrugated and paperboard packaging.
- Six of every ten corrugated boxes are recovered for recycling in the U.S.
- Paperboard or boxboard is not corrugated cardboard. Paperboard and boxboard are a lower grade fiber commodity.