Can you recycle egg boxes (cardboard)?

Moulded-fibre egg boxes are made from already-recycled paper and can go in kerbside recycling, though the short fibres mean composting is arguably better. They break down quickly in a home compost bin and make good seed-starting trays. Plastic and polystyrene egg boxes are different — plastic ones follow your council's plastics rules, polystyrene goes in general waste.

Tips

• Use them as seed trays before recycling
• They're great 'browns' for the compost bin

Which bin does it go in?

Recycling bin, or home compost

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