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Did You Know that all of these types of paper are Recyclable in Massachusettes?

Yes
  • Booklets
  • Books – soft cover
  • Boxes – for office supplies, like paper clips
  • Boxes – cereal, shoe, cracker, pasta, etc.
  • Boxes – with plastic windows
  • Brochures – including glossy
  • Calendars – wall type
  • Cardboard – corrugated and paperboard
  • Catalogs
  • Charlie cards – paper MBTA tickets
  • Clasp envelopes
  • Colored paper
  • Construction and kraft paper
  • Cover and card stock, index cards
  • Envelopes – with plastic windows and/or labels
  • File folders
  • Flyers
  • Glossy paper
  • Greeting cards
  • Hanging file folders
  • Lottery tickets
  • Mail
  • Magazines
  • Mat board – used in picture framing
  • Math paper – graph and ledger, etc.
  • Newspapers – with or without inserts
  • Newsprint
  • Office and copy paper
  • Packing paper
  • Paper – lined and white
  • Paper – fax
  • Paper bags – brown and white
  • Paper bags – with handles
  • Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
  • Pendaflex hanging file folders
  • Phone Books
  • Photocopies
  • Post-it notes
  • Receipts
  • Shredded paper in paper bags
  • Spiral notebooks
  • Writing tablets
ok
  • Metal spiral notebooks
  • Paper Clips
  • Plastic envelope windows
  • Self-stick labels
  • Staples
No thanks
  • Candy wrappers
  • Envelopes with bubble wrap
  • Label backigns
  • Paper cups or plates
  • Paper towels, napkins, tissues
  • Photographs
  • Tyvek® mailing envelops

 

MassRecycle has surveyed the paper mills and materials recovery facilities in Massachusetts to determine what types of paper can be recycled. If your current program takes more papers than what is on this list, please keep recycling them! The purpose of this list is to include papers common to ALL paper mills and paper recycling programs in Massachusetts.