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Paper Recycling in Exeter

If your Exeter business is filling bins and sacks with waste paper, a scheduled collection takes the problem off your hands and keeps every sheet in the recycling stream. M&J Bowers collects office paper, printed matter, envelopes and printers’ waste from businesses across the city and the wider area, then bales and recycles all of it, with a Waste Transfer Note handed over on every visit for your records.

Unlike a trip to a public recycling centre, we come to you and take care of the disposal for you. We are a family-run secure destruction and recycling firm that has served the South West since 1973, so your paper is handled by DBS-checked staff to recognised standards.

Why choose M&J Bowers?

  • 100% recycled with zero to landfill, guaranteed on every collection.
  • Fully accredited to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001.
  • Confidential material destroyed to BS EN 15713 by DBS-checked staff.
  • A Waste Transfer Note handed over on every visit for your records.
  • Independent and family-owned, serving the South West since 1973.
  • Flexible weekly, fortnightly, monthly or one-off collections.

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    Paper Recycling

    White, coloured and printed office paper collected and 100% recycled.

    Cardboard Recycling

    Flat-packed boxes and packaging cleared on a schedule that suits you.

    LDPE Recycling

    Shrink wrap and soft plastic film taken away on the same visit.

    Confidential Shredding

    Sensitive documents securely destroyed to BS EN 15713.

    Paper Recycling in Exeter

    What counts as commercial waste paper?

    Most of what an office throws away can be recycled. We collect white, coloured and printed office paper, envelopes and similar paper-based waste, along with printers’ offcuts and manufacturing trim. If you run a school, a print shop or a busy admin office, the bulk of your bin is usually paper you can recycle, not general waste.

    The one distinction worth making is confidential paper. Anything carrying personal data, client records or commercial information should not go into an open recycling bin. We handle that separately, so sensitive documents are securely shredded before recycling, and everyday non-confidential paper is collected and baled as standard.

    How does paper recycling collection work in Exeter?

    We keep it simple. You tell us roughly how much paper you generate and how often, and we set up a collection that fits, whether that is weekly, fortnightly, monthly or a one-off clearance. Between visits, we can provide wheelie bins or containers so your waste paper is stored tidily and ready to go.

    On collection day, our fleet takes the paper back to our Somerset depot, where we bale it and recycle it. Nothing is stockpiled and nothing goes to landfill. You receive a Waste Transfer Note with every collection, giving you a clear audit trail for compliance and for your own environmental reporting.

    Cardboard often builds up alongside paper, so many local customers add cardboard recycling in Exeter to the same collection to save a separate trip.

    Why choose M&J Bowers in Exeter?

    There are cheaper ways to move paper around, but few that give you the same certainty about where it ends up. We recycle 100% of the paper we collect and guarantee zero to landfill. Confidential material follows a closed-loop process, where we securely destroy it and then recycle it back into new paper products. Our depot runs on 214 solar panels that save more than 40,000kg of CO2 a year, and across the business we recycle over 5,000 tonnes of paper, cardboard and LDPE annually.

    Because we already run confidential shredding in Exeter and collections right across Devon, adding your paper to an existing local route is straightforward and keeps costs down.

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    Frequently asked questions

    Do I need to remove staples and paper clips?

    There is no need to remove staples, paper clips or folders before your paper is collected. Our recycling process copes with these, so you can simply fill your bin and leave the rest to us.

    What proof do I get that my paper was recycled?

    Every collection comes with a Waste Transfer Note confirming that we recycle what we take away, and confidential material can be backed by a Certificate of Destruction. Together these give you a documented trail from your premises through to recycling.

    Do you cover the whole of Exeter and Devon?

    Yes. We collect throughout the city and the surrounding towns as part of our regular South West routes, so you get a genuinely local service rather than a national broker passing the job on.