Are cardboard egg cartons recyclable?

Question

What about the styrofoam ones?

Answer 1

Carboard egg cartons are indeed recyclable and are, in fact, made from low-grade recycled paper, which is why they look so lumpy. Egg-cartons are usually the end of the line for recycled paper though, as paper "degrades" with continued recycling. After egg cartons, paper is sometimes used for insulation.

Styrofoam is very hard to recycle, though it can be done. Sony is one of the companies working on getting new raw materials from styrofoam, and sometimes it's reused in raw form to make insulation or commercial signs.  It's pretty difficult though, so go for cardboard.

Answer 2

Styrofoam is useless. In large quantities it can be used as insulation, but as it is quite flammable, it's not a good choice.

Egg cartons are made out of degraded paper. Each time paper is recycled, its quality deteriorates. You then have to add something to it, like cotton fibers, to improve it. Otherwise it just gets worse and worse. Egg cartons nailed together (or glued together) can make sound insulation, but it's awfully labor intensive, and once again is flammable.

Answer 3

Don't know about the styrofoam ones but the cardboard ones should be....you would have to talk to the recycling center that you plan on going to.  If not and if you know someone that goes camping alot you can fill the cardboard ones with dryer lint and cover them with candle wax and  they make great fire starters....

Answer 4

Yes they can either be recycled directly or reused as egg cartons for backyard chooks :-)

Answer 5

I'm sure they are recyclable, but I save mine for a elderly lady that sells eggs from her chickens in the back yard, I need to take them to her, I have like 35 stacked up in my pantry.

Answer 6

I believe so. Go on your local recycling website and check it out.