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Thermal-paper receipts: how to dispose of it in Korea

Identify whether the receipt is thermal paper, as commonly used by shop and payment terminals.

Paper and cartons

How to dispose of it

  1. Identify whether the receipt is thermal paper, as commonly used by shop and payment terminals.
  2. Keep thermal receipts out of ordinary paper recycling and put them in the local general-waste bag.
  3. If attached to a box or bag, remove the receipt and sort the remaining packaging by its own material.

Before you put it out

  • This guidance concerns thermal paper; a document printed on ordinary office paper is not necessarily the same material.
  • Keeping receipts separate as you collect them makes it easier to avoid mixing small scraps into newspapers or books.

Sources & local guidance

Prepared by Pixelone, the developer of Korea Recycle Guide. Follow your municipality and building's current instructions when they differ from this general guide.

Guide reviewed: . This is not the source dataset's update date.

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