Why can’t coloured paper and cardboard be recycled with newspapers and magazines?
Paper, such as newspapers, magazines and white ‘office’ type paper, are all made up of white paper fibres and is used for making newsprint and office paper. If coloured paper or cardboard is mixed in, the product made out of this pulp displays coloured patches and is generally weak. Therefore paper mills reject recycling loads contaminated with cardboard and coloured paper. The latter can be placed in cardboard recycling banks, which is then used to make more cardboard and paper bags.
