Bring Out Your Cardboard

[Canary42]

There's a shortage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57568239

[barry1010]

My local council collects it every fortnight for recyling. I thought all councils provided that service.

[cashier]

Not everyone is throwing it out though, putting it out for recycling I mean.

[Mamyalynne]

There's no doorstep recycling in my specific location, I rely on the kindness of family/friends to take certain items - that has been hit and miss during the past year, so yes, it can mount up.

[chelle7272]

//"We've found that, frankly, all those old cardboard boxes that we need, all that old newspaper that we need to recycle, has actually been stored in people's garages and in their refuse bins."//

Why is it still in peoples refuse bins, doesn't it get collected?

We have a recycling collection twice weekly at work and weekly at home, so no shortage here.

[Tilly2]

We are asked not to put cardboard boxes in the recycle bin. What we are asked do is flatten all the boxes and leave them at the side of the bin on the day of collection. The recycling is collected once per fortnight.

I put six big boxes out yesterday.

[chelle7272]

Funny how different each area is then. we have bi blue bags for cardboard, they won't take it if it's by the bin and not in the bag!

[cashier]

When my daughter last went to the tip she had separated everything, but there was one council worker and he pointed to the landfill skip. When she showed him the two bags of cardboard and paper, he said it all goes in there (the landfill section) so she took it home to leave out on recycling day.

[ToraToraTora]

I've got loads of it, I can only fit so much in my recycling bin. Most things I buy get delivered so it's a constant build up.

[ToraToraTora]

cashier, the guy's a moron then. At my local tip they have an area for everything and they proudly display the percentage of stuff that is recycled in large digits, always over 80%. Cardboard is becoming known as "brown gold" in the business. It wouldn't surprise me to see councils change their collection model to gather up the cardboard, I've got a massive with loads of boxes.

[ToraToraTora]

well they call it beige gold here but...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9208449/The-hunt-beige-gold-Surge-home-deliveries-led-shortage-cardboard.html
and of course the gangsters have spotted it:
https://www.businessinsider.com/cardboard-theft-illegal-recycling-booming-pandemic-2020-8?r=US&;IR=T

[barry1010]

My council will tame cardboard left beside the recycling bag if there is too much to fit in but it must be flattened and tied in bundles with string, not stuck together with tape.
They took a huge quantity that I left for them the other week.

[ToraToraTora]

wow barry, you have wild cardboard?

[ummmm]

Because I don't have a front garden we don't get wheelie bins and the boxes supplied are far too small. We're allowed to put recycling in white bin bags and house hold goes into green bags. All recycling can go out together in the same bags and gets collected every week.

[roopower]

I have several cardboard boxes in my garage so guilty as charged. I only keep the really good ones to take stuff to charity shops etc. I do recycle the others, our council collects recycling fortnightly and will take boxes too big to put in the bin. They do like the cellotape taken off them.

[Cloverjo]

I’m guilty as charged, too. I’ve got piles of cardboard boxes in my garage, thinking ‘they’ll come in handy one day.’
I’ll put them out for recycling next week.

[barry1010]

TTT, all cardboard is wild and it is cruel to keep it locked up in your garage.