Stationery Recycling

We collect traditionally hard-to-recycle stationery from your workplace via the Recorra Circular Box, providing a complete stationery recycling solution. These materials are given a new life through our trusted service partners or, if unsalvageable, are sent for energy recovery.

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Our stationery recycling services

Circular Box recycling

Circular Box

Set up in your workplace to collect stationery for recycling.

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What can and can’t go in your stationery recycling?

Our stationery recycling stream is designed to capture those everyday office items that are often hard to recycle. While most stationery can go in the stream, some items should be kept out to ensure materials can be safely recycled or recovered.

What can go in?

  • Any stationery that is part plastic
  • Pens
  • Rulers
  • Glue sticks

What can’t go in?

  • Paper
  • Sticky notes
  • Ink toners and cartridges
  • Erasers/rubbers

How to set up your stationery recycling

Helpdesk
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Contact our Helpdesk to order your Circular Box today.

Circular Box
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Set up your Circular Box in your workplace and inform your staff of its location and how to use it.

Box vehicle
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Our drivers will collect your Circular Box from your workplace once full, at a time that suits you.

Materials recovery facility
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We sort your stationery at our Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and send them for recycling with our service partners.

Stationery recycling questions answered

  • The Recorra Circular Box was designed to capture hard-to-recycle items such as office stationery. Once collected, we send them for recycling.

  • We offer businesses a separate paper recycling service to help avoid waste contamination through our stationery recycling service, along with a dedicated cardboard recycling service for larger cardboard items.

  • We offer a separate recycling service for ink and toner cartridges.

  • No, erasers are typically made from synthetic rubber or plastic, which means they are unsuitable for recycling. It is best to use them up completely.

  • Yes, most stationery items, such as pens and rulers, can be recycled through our stationery recycling service. Paper-based items, however, should go in our dedicated paper recycling stream.

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