Envelopes

Yes envelopes can be reused and recycled.

REUSE

• You can re-use your envelopes by sticking a piece of paper or a self adhesive label over the previous address.

RECYCLED
Where?

• Envelopes, including windowed enevelopes, can be included in your kerbside recycling along with paper, cardboard, drink cans, food tins, aerosols, plastic bottles and glass jars & bottles [glass in separate bin].

How?

• Include the envelopes with windows - no need to remove them.
• Do not tear envelopes into small pieces as small pieces of paper clog up the sorting machinery.

DID YOU KNOW?

• The first paper envelope was invented in China during the second century BC
• To know if flat paper will fit in an envelope swap the A for C: A4 fits in C4, A6 fits in C6, and so on…
• It is considered an act of treason to put a postage stamp with the queen’s head upside down on an envelope!