Shredded Paper - Disposal of

[tiddles]

Just wondering what people do with their shredded paper? I don't want to put loose in the recycling bins as there is a good chance is will blow everwhere when the bins are emptied, however putting it into black bags probably is not ok as these muck up the recycling process

any ideas very welcome

there is too much to put on the compost heap!

[DulwichFox]

My Takeaway deliveries come in brown paper bags.

I put My shredded waste in those and staple them to seal.

Then put them in my Blue bin.

I get rid of it gradually.

Else use the paper garden waste bags.

Just Label it

Foxy

[Bony Fido]

Some years ago the council advised putting it in garden waste bins, although since they started charging for garden waste bins it may have changed.

[edcam]

We've always put it in the normal recycling bin and it has never blown anywhere. I imagine that would only be an issue if you overfilled the bin.

[tiddles]

thanks everyone one

[ianr]

The What Can I Recycle? web page https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling/what-goes-in-recycling does include mention of some prohibitions, but no mention of shredded paper, or window envelopes -- both at one time definitely forbidden. From that absence I take it that they now simply count as paper and envelopes and so can be included in the blue bin. A Veolia guide to Southend recycling https://www.veolia.co.uk/southend/sites/g/files/dvc1761/files/document/2018/08/Southend%20Service%20Leaflet%20Houses%208pp_WEB_0.pdf (8/2018, 1.7MB) positively allows "Shredded paper (place under other paper & card so it doesn?t blow out of your box)" into their Paper and Card Only box, which provides some assurance that it's possible, at least at some locations.

[Effra]

tiddles Wrote:

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> Just wondering what people do with their shredded

> paper? I don't want to put loose in the recycling

> bins as there is a good chance is will blow

> everwhere when the bins are emptied, however

> putting it into black bags probably is not ok as

> these muck up the recycling process

>

> any ideas very welcome

>

> there is too much to put on the compost heap!

Shredded paper makes great compost when mixed with green matter.

[Penguin68]

It also makes fine hamster bedding

[oliviaandmilo]

I put all my papers into water , so this makes the ink disintegrate . Then you can pull together and squeeze out the excess water and put into balls and throw in the recycle bin. Water keeps it weighted and safely from fraudsters!

[Sue]

oliviaandmilo Wrote:

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> I put all my papers into water , so this makes the

> ink disintegrate . Then you can pull together and

> squeeze out the excess water and put into balls

> and throw in the recycle bin. Water keeps it

> weighted and safely from fraudsters!

I do that as well, but I put it in my compost :)