What to Recycle
List of Papers We Can Recycle
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MassRecycle has surveyed the paper mills and paper recovery facilities in Massachusetts to determine what types of paper can be recycled.
Following is the list of papers that can be recycled by all of these facilities*:
- 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
- Fax paper
- File folders
- Flyers
- Glossy paper
- Greeting cards
- Hanging file folders
- Lottery tickets
- Mail – including junk mail
- Magazines
- Mat board – used in picture framing
- Math paper – graph and ledger, etc.
- Newspaper – with or without inserts
- Newsprint
- Office and copy paper
- Packing paper
- Paper – lined and white
- Paper bags – brown and white
- Paper bags – with handles
- Paper – lined and white
- Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
- Phone Books
- Photocopies
- Post-it notes
- Receipts
- Shredded paper in paper bags
- Spiral notebooks
- Writing tablets
*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.
Remember:
You do not need to remove staples, paper clips, tape, spirals or windows from your paper prior to recycling.
