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During recycling collections "all cardboard/paper" must be packed flat.
So if you have a cardboard box which seems suitable for containing all
the other cardboard you put in it, expect to keep the box.

Ours are obviously a lot friendlier. Our recycling box got nicked some
months ago[1] and since then I've put it all out in a cardboard box.
Everything sorted into bags, all cardboard exepct the box CKD and
they're quite happy to take it. Bloke said he actually prefers it as he
doesn't have to walk back with the empty box.

[1] Little scrote locally stole a dozen of 'em to make a ramp for his
bicycle.

That shows enterprise! But if you know who took it why not take it back?

:-)

I don't understand the 'recycling box' part of your post, Guy. Don't you
have a wheelie bin for recyclable stuff?


Some places have box for recyclables rather than a bin. Round here
wheelie bins for recycleables only came in a little while before we
moved here. Before that people used a blue plastic box - and lots of
people still do in preference to the bin, esp. if they have limited
storage space for bins I think..

ISTR some areas of Leeds still had plastic box (green?) for similar
use. I think it might have been those in the old SWAP (Save Waste and
Prosper) scheme, which predated the more general recycling bins ISTR.
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Chris French