Give Waste Another Chance Blue-Bagging Your Paper

Paper makes up nearly a third of household waste, by weight. In Rotherham we recycled about 3,600 tonnes of it last year. That's equivalent to something like 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.

Using your Blue Bags for paper

On average, every family in the UK throws away about 8.5 kilograms (nearly 19 pounds) of paper and card each week. Rotherham's existing Blue Bag scheme for recycling paper will continue alongside the new Blue Box collections for glass, cans and textiles.

Paper you can put in your Blue Bag includes:

newspapers and magazines
catalogues
junk mail
office stationery
all phone directories including Yellow Pages
other types of white paper.

Please DON'T put into the Blue Bag:

cardboard
envelopes (because of the glue).

If you run out of Blue Bags, please put your paper for recycling in a carrier bag next to your Blue Box.

Need more information ?

This is a PDF document icon. The New Blue Bag Information Leaflet (1450 Kb) Week 1
The New Blue Bag Information Leaflet (1450 Kb) Week 2

This is an internal link icon. Contact Information

This is an internal link icon. Frequently Asked Questions, including collection dates, assisted collection ..

This is an internal link icon. Fascinating facts about paper and recycling paper

Please use your Blue Box and Blue Bags to the full. Help make the waste work for Rotherham!