Call to recycle (or compost) your Argos Catelogue

Residents in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin are being encouraged to help reduce waste to landfill by recycling their old Argos catalogues, when the new one is launched in July 2011.


It is estimated that there are over 36 million Argos catalogues in circulation across the country, each weighing 2kg each – a combined weight equivalent to more than 10,000 double decker buses!!!!


In Shropshire, people can recycle old and unwanted Argos catalogues in their kerbside collection box with their paper. They also compost down well eventually but you may need to tear them up a bit first.

Councillor John Hurst-Knight, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member with responsibility for recycling and composting, said:


“By recycling old Argos catalogues, people can play a big part in reducing the amount that is sent to landfill. I hope that when people pick up their new catalogue they will remember to recycle their old one.”


All Argos catalogues collected in Shropshire will be sent to the UPM paper mill at Shotton, Deeside where they are turned into newsprint paper and used to make newspapers.