Card/Cardboard

Where possible, buy items with less packaging.

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It is good to add soft cardboard such as egg boxes to a home compost bin or wormery. Scrunched up, this will create air pockets and help decomposition.

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Give small boxes etc.to nursery schools for art and craft activities.

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Edinburgh: Take to the packaging Recycling Points or place into your red kerbside box. East Lothian, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders: Place into your kerbside collection. East Lothian: Only light/grey card (e.g. cereal boxes) is accepted in the green Paper Recycling Points in East Lothian. West Lothian: Only thin card (e.g cereal boxes) is accepted by the kerbside collection. See Kerbside Recycling See KERBSIDE RECYCLING or www.sort-it.org.uk.

All types of cardboard are accepted at the Community Recycling Centres See COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTRES.. Please crush down boxes so that as many boxes as possible will fit in.

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Changeworks Confidential, part of Changeworks Recycling offers a dedicated confidential shredding service for Edinburgh residents. Changeworks Recycling also offers an Office Paper and Cardboard collection for businesses within the Central Belt area: T: 0800 694 0158, E: info@changeworksrecycling.co.uk, W: www.changeworksrecycling.co.uk.

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IKEA has a container for the collection of brown cardboard packaging (situated at the exit).