Cardboard
BIRD separates corrugated cardboard from the mixed paper because of its high value. Cardboard is recycled into new boxes and packaging, paper towels and cat litter. No waxed cardboard boxes please because when processed it both spoils the mix and damages the machines. Flat cardboard (example: cereal boxes) counts as mixed paper.
Mixed Paper
Paper can be recycled around 5 times, after that the fibre becomes too short to use. Recycling paper produces 74% less air pollution, 35% less water pollution, 58% less water is required, and 64% less energy is required, compared with using virgin fibre.
Recycling a four-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of one 40-foot fir tree. And one tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
No waxed or plasticized paper please (ice cream containers and coffee cups). When processed it both spoils the mix and damages the machines.
Recycling a four-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of one 40-foot fir tree. And one tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
No waxed or plasticized paper please (ice cream containers and coffee cups). When processed it both spoils the mix and damages the machines.
