Paper and Cardboard

Paper is made from trees (of course!) through a pulping process where the ingredients are wetted and mixed then pressed through rollers and dried. A wide range of papers and cardboard can be recycled.

Accepted for Recycling
Just about everything, including:

• Newspapers, magazines, advertising flyers and glossy brochures.
• Office and computer paper, cards and envelopes, calendars.
• Cereal and other food packaging boxes and corrugated egg cartons.
• Telephone books and paperbacks.
• Cardboard boxes and paper or cardboard wrapping materials (any thickness).

Preparation

• Keep paper and cardboard clean and dry.
• Place all paper items in a bag, tied at the top to make sure it doesn’t blow away.
• Flatten cardboard.

All Brite processes close to 80,000 tonnes of recycled paper and cardboard each year. It requires about 17 trees to make a tonne of paper, so this saves about 1,360,000 trees. That’s a lot of trees!