Recycling for Business

Paper & Card and Confidential Paper Shredding

We collect all types of paper, card, cardboard, newspapers, fliers, catalogues and magazines - and we don’t mind if you mix it altogether.

We also offer an on site Confidential Paper Shredding service.

Our driver will collect your confidential documents from your business and shred the documents whilst still on your site. You will receive a notice of Destruction Receipt as evidence of the shredding. For more information contact
Mark Foster

We will provide you as many bags as you would like, free of charge or course, for your offices and three free of charge 240 litre wheelie bins for outside your offices. If you require more than three bins then there will be a small charge per bin and a deposit for all 1100 litre bins.

Paper, like many other inventions we take for granted, originally came from ancient China. Ts’ai Lun, a member of the Eastern Han Court of the Emperor Ho Ti, made the first sheet from rag fibres in 105 AD. Paper got a big welcome from Chinese kite makers, who had previously used wood.

In more modern times, the computer was supposed to signal the end of paper's long reign, but it hasn't - over the last two decades, the world's consumption of paper has more than doubled. Paper makes up nearly a third of business waste, by weight. In Rotherham we recycled about 3,600 tonnes in 2006. That's equivalent to 10 million magazines - a stack more than 20 miles high. Amazingly, this is still only about a tenth of the waste paper we collected. Not all of it can be recycled economically, but we could certainly recycle a lot more with your help.

Recycling paper for business
Waste paper was one of the first business waste materials to be recycled on a large scale and is relatively easy to process and re-use. Waste paper of the right kind can be reprocessed to produce new paper. There are potentially huge advantages both for our local communities and for the global environment.

Why recycle paper?
Waste paper can be used on its own or mixed with new fibres to make many different kinds of paper, from high-quality printing paper to low-cost tissues and toilet rolls. There are at least four very good reasons for doing so:

Recycling paper saves timber because wood pulp is by far the most commonly used source of cellulose fibres for making paper.

(About 5 per cent is made from other fibre sources such as rags, cotton, grasses and sugar cane.)

Recycling paper saves energy because producing recycled paper takes

Recycling paper saves water because papermaking requires large quantities of water - more than any other manufactured product, tonne for tonne -

Recycling paper reduces landfill because waste paper is one
of the largest components of household waste and at the moment

If you require all your materials ie. paper/card, glass and cans - collecting in the same collection on the same date then you will only be charged for the collection of your paper and card material collected.

TO START MAKING YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO RECYCLING, CALL CREATION ON 01709 837288,
OR CLICK THE LINK TO EMAIL US creationrecycle@btconnect.com