Cardboard Recycling, Commercial Cardboard Recycling & Cardboard Waste

Harvesting circa 1.7 million tonnes of cardboard and paper annually from UK waste streams through 15 of our own recycling facilities makes DS Smith Recycling the UK’s largest collector of waste paper for cardboard recycling. DS Smith Packaging - the largest UK manufacturer of corrugated packaging to large UK retailers, makes it possible for us to handle any volume of paper and packaging recyclate, large or small ensuring your cardboard recycling needs are handled efficiently.

Maintaining the highest standards of cardboard quality and continuity of supply has made us the UK’s industry leader in cardboard recycling & recovered fibre. This has helped us to establish a global reputation as a core supplier of recovered fibre and recycled cardboard.

The DS Smith Group of companies holds a unique position in the UK market. Supply of packing is possible through DS Smith Packaging whilst DS Smith Recycling provides the collection infrastructure to recover packaging from the waste stream after its use. This recovered packaging (and other fibre grades) provide the raw materials used in production by the groups paper making operations, DS Smith Paper.

By utilising the groups own transport division recycled cardboard packaging can be supplied at one end of the supply chain and collected and recycled at the other end – providing a unique closed recycle loop scenario.