Paper and Cardboard Recycling Bins
Secure Document Lockable Bins
We provide neat and tidy secure lockable recycling bins to store your documents in whilst they await collection and destruction. For added piece of mind, we provide you with a Certificate of Destruction.
Archive Boxes Remove and Secure
We collect archive boxes from your premises, ideal if you have years of documents in storage and planning an office cleanout. All contents of your collected archive boxes are shredded and recycled. Certificate of Destruction available.
Document Destruction with Certificate of Destruction
Our document destruction service covers a range of items (see example list below); if an item is not on the list, please contact us for more information. All items destroyed are recycled and you are issued with a Certificate of Destruction upon completion.
What we can destroy:
- Paper (all types)
- Books
- Magazines
- Files
- Stationery
- Medical Records
Paper Recycling Collection
Use our around the clock 24/7 paper and cardboard recycling collection service to recycle all types of paper and cardboard from your home, business, factory or school.
What we can recycle:
- Cardboard boxes
- Newspapers, magazines and brochures
- photocopy paper and wrappers
- computer printouts
- envelopes (even those with windows)
- manila folders
- phonebooks
Certificate of Destruction
Certificate of Destruction is issued upon destruction of sensitive documents. By producing a Certificate of Destruction, we are providing legal proof that we have destroyed all documents in question.
Cardboard & Paper Balers (all sizes)
Certificate of Destruction is issued upon destruction of sensitive documents. By producing a Certificate of Destruction, we are providing legal proof that we have destroyed all documents in question.
Recycled Paper Saving
One Tonne of recycled paper saves:
Why recycle paper?
When paper breaks down in landfill it creates methane, a major greenhouse gas with the global warming capacity 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
Manufacturing paper and cardboard products from recycled material not only conserves trees, it also uses up to 50% less energy and 90% less water than making them from raw materials. It is important not only to recycle your paper, but also to purchase recycled paper products. These days, good quality office and printing paper, as well as many other paper products are available with recycled paper content of up to 100%.
For every 100 reams of recycled office paper that is printed doubled sided, the savings are estimated at two trees, more than one tonne of greenhouse gases and almost a cubic metre of landfill space, compared with using 100 reams of non-recycled paper or printing single-sided.
What happens to recycled paper?
Recycling paper begins by breaking down the product using either chemical or mechanical means to free the fibres and create pulp. The pulp is re-manufactured into paper products in a similar way to first production paper. The waste products left over from the recycling process (ink, short fibres and plastics) are collectively called “sludge” and are either sent into landfill, burnt for energy or used as fertilizer.
Paper can be recycled into many things including office paper, packaging, toilet paper, egg cartons, soundproofing, furniture and cardboard.
Paper can be recycled up to eight times. Once the paper has been recycled as many times as possible, it is turned into organic waste and breaks down.