Recycling shredded paper (merged)

humblepie_3

What about posting it on freecycle, you never know someone might need it to do the suggestions previously posted.

skintchick

If you're a gardener then you could use it in the bottom of large plant pots to save having to use so much compost - OS AND Moneysaving!

Gorgeous_George

I'm a little concerned about potential fire risk with some of the suggestions. I hope you recognise this risk.

I usually put mine in with the cardboard at the local recycling centre - as instructed by the chaps who work there. Sometimes, I'll add it to the compost.

I would have thought it would be worth the local farmers collecting it as bedding but again, there is a fire risk + potential contamination from inks or staples.

Of course, the best thing is not to produce the waste in the first place. Why get bank statements if you bank online? I have 3 bank accounts and dutifully file the statements for a year - all the info is available online. My BTL house insurance is paperless - perhaps more companies could post the detail on their website and simply issue a single page certicate of insurance.



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ailuro2

donate it to the local nursery or after school club- they will find a use for it, although it may get taken home and put in the general rubbish bin by little darling's parents,rather than recycled.

Seakay

N9eav wrote:

Buy a hamster and use it for bedding.

NO seriously they must have a collection of recyleables in your area? Ours come twice a month and collect the glass, plastic and paper...[/QUOTE

Check, though; our council will not accept shredded paper in the recycling collection bags

tr3mor

Seakay wrote:

Check, though; our council will not accept shredded paper in the recycling collection bags

Someone has to sort through the mixed recycling bags, why do you think they don't accept it?!

tawnyowls

tr3mor wrote:

Someone has to sort through the mixed recycling bags, why do you think they don't accept it?!

Our council claims it's sorted by machine, not by hand, and the machines can't pick up the shredded paper. True or not? Who knows? Mine ends up in the compost bin too - balances out the grass mowings nicely.

tr3mor

tawnyowls wrote:

Our council claims it's sorted by machine, not by hand, and the machines can't pick up the shredded paper. True or not? Who knows? Mine ends up in the compost bin too - balances out the grass mowings nicely.

Well either way, I can see it making a huge mess of whatever conveyor-belts and machinery they use in sorting it!

Geordiebird_3

Zed42 wrote:

Compost / papier mache ... or make bricks out of it.

We soak the shredded paper, mix with some soaked newspaper and a bit of sawdust, squeeze in the brick maker, leave to dry and have some fuel for the Winter ....

Brick maker? I have a coal fire... Where can I get such a thing?

Thanks

s0198362

Geordiebird wrote:

Brick maker? I have a coal fire... Where can I get such a thing?

Thanks

Geordiebird.

Try here

http://www.greenshop.co.uk/acatalog/Greenshop_online_Log_Makers_156.html

There may be chaepaer ones around. This is just the first one I found.