The Recycle for Cornwall campaign has been developed to raise public awareness of recycling and to provide consumers with a compelling reason to recycle.
They can be used to boost your height if you want to give someone a kiss under the mistletoe, and even to get you out of a scrape with a Doberman according to the new adverts! But what do you do with your old copy once your new edition has landed on your mat?
Recycle them of course!
Because the dye in yellow pages runs throughout the fibre of the paper it is difficult to remove. Therefore in Cornwall it is most efficient to recycle Yellow Pages with cardboard and brown paper, rather than with regular paper. This is due to the fact that paper mills require a high grade of paper for recycling and yellow pages would contaminate this process.
Across the UK millions of old Yellow Pages are recycled every year, most often into card and board, loft insulation, packaging materials, jiffy bags, egg boxes, animal bedding and also newsprint material. UK wide over 95% of local authorities now offer opportunities to recycle Yellow Pages, and in Cornwall you can do so through any of the mixed paper banks (where both paper and cardboard can be recycled).
If you live in Restormel, Carrick or Kerrier you can also include your old yellow pages for collection in your fortnightly recycling collections.
Cornish schools often collect Yellow Pages as part of the Yellow Woods Challenge, where schools can win money for collecting the most copies for recycling. The school is also able to enter into a National sculpture competition using the collected yellow pages prior to them being recycled. Check with your local school to see if your copy will help them win a prize.
According to the latest Yellow Pages recycling survey, conducted by FDS International in May 2005, more people in the South West said they recycled their old Yellow Pages than anywhere else in the UK (64%). Around 70 tonnes of Yellow Pages were collected for recycling in Cornwall in 2006 which stay in the county where they are shredded up and used as animal bedding under the brand newshred. (excluding Carrick)
Make a difference TODAY
Recycle your yellow pages, if it can’t be included with your kerbside collection, take it to your mixed paper bank.
They can be used to boost your height if you want to give someone a kiss under the mistletoe, and even to get you out of a scrape with a Doberman according to the new adverts! But what do you do with your old copy once your new edition has landed on your mat?
Cornish schools often collect Yellow Pages as part of the Yellow Woods Challenge, where schools can win money for collecting the most copies for recycling. The school is also able to enter into a National sculpture competition using the collected yellow pages prior to them being recycled. Check with your local school to see if your copy will help them win a prize.