Commercial Cardboard Recycling

Benefit from efficient collection, baling, and recycling of your commercial cardboard waste. By processing cardboard separately, we help businesses reduce costs while transforming waste into high-quality packaging materials and products.

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Our cardboard recycling services

1100l wheeled bin collection

Wheeled Bins

We offer a range of containers in various sizes to hold your commercial cardboard waste.

Kerbside sticker collection

Kerbside pick up

Colour coded prepaid sticker. Supplied by the roll and purchased upfront.

Bale recycling collection

Bales

For businesses with large volumes of cardboard waste, we collect bales of cardboard from your site.

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What can and can’t go in your cardboard recycling

What can go in?

  • Cardboard flat packed
  • Cardboard packaging
  • Cereal boxes
  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Brown paper

What can’t go in?

  • Food
  • White paper

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What happens to my cardboard?

Wheeled bin and cardboard
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We collect your cardboard from your workplace at a date and time that suits you.

Box vehicle
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Our drivers take your cardboard to our Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Essex, where it is baled.

Cardboard bale
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Your baled cardboard is taken to UK mills to be recycled into new packaging materials or products.

Cardboard recycling questions answered

  • It’s less expensive and more environmentally friendly! Recorra always encourage source segregation for better quality recycling. Cardboard takes up a lot of space within the mixed recycling stream, reducing recycling rates. Collecting cardboard separately retains its material value and reduces cost overall.

  • If you generate large volumes of cardboard and would like to reduce the storage space needed, we recommend using a cardboard baler.

  • To properly prepare cardboard for recycling:

    • Break down and flatten boxes
    • Remove any non-cardboard materials (tape, staples, etc.)
    • Keep cardboard clean and dry
    • Separate cardboard from other recyclables
  • Collecting and recycling cardboard separately can lower waste management costs for your business. It reduces the volume of mixed waste and minimises collection frequency, leading to overall savings.

    Recycled cardboard can also be repurposed into products such as packaging materials, which can be repurchased for further cost savings.

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