Recycle your old Yellow Pages
It is that time of year when Warwickshire residents can improve their strength – by lifting their new copies of Yellow Pages off the doormat.
Warwickshire households are set to receive a new edition of the Yellow Pages over the next few weeks, rendering the old ones redundant.
The Warwickshire Waste Partnership is encouraging all residents to recycle their old Yellow Pages rather than put them in their rubbish bin.
Each of the old Yellow Pages weighs 1.464kg, which means that in Warwickshire there’ll be an extra 325 tonnes of paper entering the waste stream!
If residents put these in their bins the material will go straight to landfill, but if they send them to be recycled the material will be made into a range of useful materials such as cardboard, packaging, insulation material and newsprint.
All Warwickshire districts are now able to collect Yellow Pages in the kerbside recycling container. Yellow Pages can also be taken to any paper recycling bank across the county - visit http://www.recyclemore.co.uk to find your nearest site.
Cllr Alan Cockburn, Chair of Warwickshire Waste Partnership and Warwickshire County Council’s Portfolio Holder for the Environment, said: “It is such a massive amount of paper, it would be fantastic if every single resident in Warwickshire could help the environment by recycling their old Yellow Pages this year.”
More information on Waste Minimisation and Recycling can be found by visiting http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/recyclewarks.