Cardboard

Ideas for reusing or recycling cardboard.

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Reuse

• Keep larger cardboard boxes in case you or a friend need to move house.
• Smaller boxes are useful for posting gifts or transporting items.
• Use boxes as containers to keep your recycling tidy.

Recycle

• Add small quantities of cardboard to your compost bin.

• Take unwanted cardboard to the cardboard skip at our household waste recycling centres.

• Take it to cardboard banks at selected local recycling centres (opens in a new window).

• Add it to your kerbside collection where available  - please contact your local district, borough or city council for more information about kerbside collection schemes. 
  Find out how to contact your local district, borough or city council by visiting our other councils page.

• You could compost cardboard at home. To purchase a compost bin visit getcomposting.com (opens in a new window) or call 0844 571 4444.