Tips and recycling centres
What cardboard can be recycled
Boxes, delivery packaging and cardboard tubes can be recycled. Card with food, dirt, paint or glitter on it cannot.
Cardboard that can be recycled
Cereal, egg and dishwasher tablet boxes, delivery boxes, cardboard envelopes, greetings cards without glitter, and toilet and kitchen roll tubes.
Large amounts
If it will not fit in your bin, take it to a tip.
Toilet roll tubes become egg boxes
Recycle Now says cardboard tubes can be recycled into new things such as egg boxes.
Key facts
- Binmap lists 298 places that say they take cardboard, including 202 tips.
- Another 318 places may take cardboard, but they do not say so. Check before you go.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
Written by Binmap using guidance from Recycle Now.
Advice from national bodies
What to do
- Take off tape and any plastic or polystyrene inserts.
- Flatten boxes.
- Take batteries out of musical cards.
Kinds of place that take it
- Local recycling sites
- Recycling centres
Guides for similar items
Other kinds of place
Schemes and collection services
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