Why cant coloured paper and cardboard be recycled with newspapers and magazines?
Paper, such as newspapers, magazines and white `office type paper, is made up of white paper fibres and is used for making newsprint and new paper. If coloured paper or cardboard gets mixed in with the white paper, it contaminates the mix resulting in a weaker strength of paper with coloured patches in it. This will result in the paper mill rejecting any load of `contaminated paper. Coloured paper, brown envelopes without windows and cardboard can be recycled in cardboard banks. This can then be made into new cardboard and paper bags.
