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I pay the local council to come and take my trade waste away, one dumpster for general waste and one for recycling paper and cardboard

We would also be fined if we took our trade waste to the recycling center, which is for domestic use only

Steve N wrote:one dumpster for general waste and one for recycling paper and cardboard

Do they class the mountboard as cardboard?

Thanks a very hard question to answer! I've often heard it said that gloss magazines are not to be include in paper for recycling, because they have been made extra smooth on the paper surfaces to allow extra high defination printing, by coating the paper with china clay. This makes me to ash myself the question, "does the china clay content count as contamination, preenting the recycled pulp from being reused".

If this is so, what about the calcium carbonate alkaline buffering in the mountboard? Does this contaminate the recycled pulp?

So should mountboard scraps go into the recycling bin, or into your normal rubbish? Don't ask me, I don't know.

Having said all that, I only have the one trade waste bin and everything goes in that. They claim to send zero to land fill, so my understand is that everything goes to the massive incinerator just down the road from their depot and where does the resulting ash go if not to landfill? No idea!