Recycling egg boxes....

I always recycle them with the cardboard.

Mine go in the recycle bin too.

In the spring I used egg boxes for growing seeds.

I m pretty sure we can recycle them I always put them in my blue recycle bin never been told I shouldn’t and never read or heard any thing to say we can’t
In the summer I grow seeds in them ideal to put straight in the garden to melt away, cardboard is excellent for composting too

I always put them in the blue recycling bin too. However, the last dozen free range egg sale I bought were packed in clear plastic! ?

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I always put them in the blue recycling bin too. However, the last dozen free range egg sale I bought were packed in clear plastic! ?

Yes: I bought some recently that were in a plastic box. I thought maybe they’d switched to recycleable plastic.

We tear them up and put them on our compost heap. They rot down well.

Compost heap here too.
Our Co-op had a sign up that they were having to switch temporarily to plastic boxes.

Are you sure you can't recycle the cardboard ones? Some areas accept them, others do not. Reasons for some areas not wanting them (for instance, if you put eggy eggshells back into them, they could be contaminated with food, whichmakes them unacceptable) are mentioned at wigglywisdom.com/are-egg-cartons-recyclable/ which also has some other things you could do with them

I use them to chit potatoes for allotment.

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This is what it says on the recycling calendar. Maybe it's a space thing. Unfortunately I no longer have a compost bin due to a rat infestation.

We buy our eggs from a local smallholder and take the boxes back for refilling every week. They must be older than the grandsons now, but still going strong.

Perhaps that means the plastic egg boxes you often get in supermarkets

We don’t have inner and outer just one blue recycling bin which all recyclable things go into

I give the coat hangers back to the dry cleaners but I do have a problem with take a way food containers, I don’t buy that often but they build up as do the yogurt pots. Funnily enough the next town accepts them in their recycle bins and they are collected by the same company.

Again those little pots are ideal as plant pots burn a little hole in the bottom though

We recycle ours, but I see that you can’t Maybee nor pizza boxes.
Suppose you will have to add them to the general refuse bin.

Buy eggs from your local farm or poultry keeper- and re-use the same box. When I do have spares, they all go into the compost bin.

We used to but since Covid I get them delivered by the milkman. We don’t even venture forth to the village shop or the farm these days. I may phone the farm up and ask if they need any boxes though.

I tear them up and put them in the compost bin, like Treebee. They're rotting down well.

Mine also go in the compost in summer, or are used for seeds. In winter the make excellent fire lighters, either in the chimenea or open fire.

We just have 3 bins. Green for household waste, black for recycling and brown for garden waste.
Our recycling provision is rather poor here we can put newspapers cardboard, cans and plastic bottles into the bin, and thats about all.
I do put in cardboard egg boxes and have never been asked not to.

I put cardboard egg boxes in compost bin, along with loo rolls, but would put them in the re-cycling bin if not. Also put plastic egg boxes to re-cycle. Yogurt pots and marg tubs allowed, but we have to take glass to the bottle banks.
Pity the whole country doesn’t do the same all over, would make the rules easier to follow.

I tear up damp cardboard egg boxes to put in the wormery. Also if you make them soggy enough to fall apart and mix in some PVA you can use the resulting mush as a modelling material. It just needs time to air dry, or maybe very cool oven. I made small balls of it and added an extension to the Christmas nativity stable.