Is it ok to put toilet roll tubes (made of cardboard) in a paper recycle bin?

Question

Can they recycle them together with the other paper? Or can they separate the cardboard and recycle it?

How do you know?

Answer 1

Why not - the containers say paper/cardboard.

Answer 2

In the UK it depends on which Council collects your waste and what sort of contract they've got with the paper companies. Our Council takes newspapers and magazines (not glossy ones) in one bag and co-mingled cardboard (including loo rolls) with other printed paper, glossy mags, telephone directories, junk-mail etc in another bag. This is all due to the processes that the re-cycling company uses to separate the waste and should be clearly laid out in the literature you get from your Council.

The problem about just throwing it all in together (and the same is true for different coloured glass) is that newspapers would contaminate the other paper waste, and vice-versa. This would mean a lower quality product for the re-cycling company who will then reduce the rate they pay the Council - which in turn will incease your Council Tax!!

Quite simply, it's up to everybody to "source-separate" their waste (at home where it's relatively easy & clean) rather than chuck it all in together & let someone else get on with it. The Council should advise which things can be mixed together (cans/tins/plastic etc) depending on the methods of mechanical separation that are to be used - it's all a balance between cost of collection & ease of separation at the end.

Answer 3

yes i  put   everything  in altogether   it makes  no difference  its good we  do  it   , more should  but   don't  !!  ,

Answer 4

Absolutely, all paper/ cardboard products, unless they have a plastic coating.

Answer 5

absolutely, I collect them all together, as you can flatten them and place into a cereal box / fold into one another.

I recycle once a week, you will be amazed at the amount of packaging and carrying materials you use ( plastic and glass )

Answer 6

yes its ok to put, well i do it all the time.

i dont see why not? im in australia too

Answer 7

its all the same cardboard is just thick paper

Answer 8

Of course!  I asked my city.  I recycle all paper and paper products.  Cereal boxes, tp rolls, napkins, paper towels, etc.

Answer 9

I do it all the time, it says so on the inside of the lid of the bin, i am in Australia, and that's what we do.