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Paper shipping bags and envelopes

How to recycle paper shipping bags and envelopes

Paper shipping bags

  • Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot

Put empty paper shipping bags and envelopes (with the inside cushioning made of paper):

  • Into your blue cart for recycling
  • Take to a community recycling depot

Note: Bubble mailers made of paper and plastic go in the black cart.

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