HOUSEHOLDERS across Hambleton and Richmondshire are being urged to recycle more.
The two district authorities are asking residents to add more light card into their recycling bags – which are collected fortnightly from the kerbside.
“All paper and some light card - including cereal boxes, food packaging and health and beauty packaging – can now be taken at the kerbside,” said recycling officer Louise Granger.
“The card must be white or grey based - brown cardboard cannot be taken as the mill where the materials are recycled are unable to recycle it. “
She added: “By adding card to the list of products we can take at the kerbside we can reduce the amount we send to landfill and increase the income for the authorities – good for the councils and for the environment.”
Householders can put a range of paper-based materials into the blue bags - newspapers, magazines, catalogues, brochures, leaflets, junk mail, office paper, shredded paper, all envelopes, greetings cards, Yellow Pages and telephone directories.
But brown cardboard, tissue paper, plastic wrappers and paper based drink cartons cannot be taken.
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