Paper and Card Only Waste Sign printed on a rigid sign board (paper and card only waste sign printing)

Size check

The figure stands 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m). Choose a different size and the drawing redraws to match.

Included as standard

A Paper and Card Only Waste sign gives Manchester schools, copy rooms and offices a strict label: this bin takes paper and card and nothing else. It is a blue and white information sign in A4, A3 or A2, printed on self-adhesive vinyl, 3mm Foamex or 3mm Dibond, with 5 working days in production.

Full-colour UK printing, produced only once you order
Uploaded artwork gets a free check by one of our team (size, bleed, resolution)
Send a print-ready PDF, or have us prepare the artwork
Sent by courier, or collect from our Manchester office (M8)

Safety Signs

Paper and Card Only Waste Sign in Manchester

from £26.82

"Only" is the word that keeps the bin clean. One drink carton or sandwich wrapper can spoil a whole sack of paper, so the strict wording tells people this bin is not a general one with a paper theme.

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…Working out your price

The price shown is the price you pay at checkout. UK delivery £7.95, free over £100. Highlands +£10. Islands and Northern Ireland: ask for a price.

Artwork

My artwork is ready to uploadA person checks your file for free: resolution, size and bleed, before it prints.FreeSet my words and logo neatly for me (typesetting)1 design + 2 rounds of changes.£15.00Design it for me from a briefA complete design built from your notes, logo and photos, with a first draft and two rounds of changes.£35.00Redraw my logo from a blurry or small fileWe rebuild your logo as a sharp vector file, and it is yours to keep.£30.00Create a new logo for meA fresh logo drawn to your brief, changes included, handed over as vector files.£50.00Use the design from another item in my basketNothing extra to pay: one design fee covers every item that shares the design.No fee

Your brief for the designer (optional)Upload files (logo, artwork, photos or a rough sketch: up to 3 files of 25 MB each)

Design fees are a fixed amount with their own line in the basket, covering every copy of this item. Not ready yet? Order now and upload later: we email you a link.

Running a charity, school, club or place of worship? up to 10% off each orderBusiness? up to 5% off the first order

Delivery £7.95Nothing to pay above £100. Goes by tracked courier, which normally takes 1 to 3 working days once it leaves us (production can be as quick as 2 working days).

Collection from M8Collecting from our Manchester office costs nothing. We email you when the order is waiting.

About this product

The difference between this and a general paper sign is one word. "Only" makes it plain that nothing else goes in, which matters because contaminated paper loads can be rejected by collectors.

A Droylsden school reprographics room, Greater Manchester

Picture the reprographics room at a secondary school in Droylsden. Misprints, cut-offs and old worksheets go in a big bin by the copiers. So do coffee cups, sandwich packets and the occasional broken stapler, because staff grab the nearest bin between lessons. A vinyl sign stuck directly on the bin, plus one on the wall above, with "Only" clear in the wording, sorts it out.

The mistake people make is putting a general bin right next to the paper one with no label. Then the paper bin feels like the "proper" bin and attracts everything. Label both, side by side, and keep them the same size.

Coffee cups are the classic contaminant: most have a plastic lining and do not belong with paper. If you want to say that, add "No cups" through typesetting at £15. A person checks every file.

Board and size

Vinyl suits smooth bin bodies and walls in a copy room. Foamex is good where vinyl will not sit flat. Dibond is for outdoor paper skips. A4 reads from about 8 m; A3, roughly 12 m, suits a staff room. Schools get 10 % off every order. Prices start at £26.82.

Allow 5 working days to make it; tracked delivery then usually takes 1 to 3 working days. Delivery is £7.95, free on goods worth more than £100. Find the full range under recycling signs. Choose a size.

We are a Manchester printer with customers all over the UK. Delivery covers Manchester and its suburbs, Trafford Park among them, and the rest of the mainland, and local customers can collect from our Manchester office when the order is ready.

Price by size

Listed from the smallest up. Choosing a price sets that size in the buy box for you.

Size	3mm Foamex	3mm Dibond aluminium composite	self-adhesive vinyl
A4 · 210 × 297 mm
A3 · 297 × 420 mm
A2 · 420 × 594 mm

Final prices per item with the lowest-priced options. UK delivery £7.95, free over £100. Choose a price to load it into the price calculator.

Specification

What it is made from, the sizes on offer and how it is finished.

Message	Paper and Card Only Waste
Sign type	Info
Materials	3mm Foamex, 3mm Dibond aluminium composite and self-adhesive vinyl
Sizes	A4 (210 × 297 mm), A3 (297 × 420 mm), A2 (420 × 594 mm)
Viewing distance	A4: 8 m, A3: 12 m, A2: 17 m
Print	Full colour, single sided
Made by	Made to order by Manchester Printed, Manchester, in our workshop or by our UK production partner, depending on the option
SKU	MP-SAF-228
Price	The configurator shows the final price, and checkout matches it.
Delivery	UK mainland £7.95 per order, free over £100. Highlands +£10. Islands and Northern Ireland: ask for a price.
Artwork check	Every uploaded file is checked by a person for resolution, size and bleed.

What size should I order?

Pick a size people can read from where they will stand. As a cautious rule, using the distance-factor method in ISO 3864-1, allow roughly 1 metre of reading distance per 25 mm of sign height (measured on the shorter side). Check it against your own risk assessment.

Size	Can be read from about
A4 (210 × 297 mm)	8 m
A3 (297 × 420 mm)	12 m
A2 (420 × 594 mm)	17 m

Good lighting stretches the reading distance; in dim spots, go a size up.

Your design

Three routes to print-ready artwork. Pick whichever suits you.

Send your own file

Make the PDF at the ordered size plus 3 mm bleed on each edge. Someone on our team looks over every upload, free of charge, before printing starts.

Use the designer

This one needs a ready-made file rather than the designer. Stuck? We can prepare the artwork for you.

Let us do it

Choose typesetting, or a design worked up from your brief, when you reach the artwork step. File set-up advice.

FAQs

Short answers on ordering paper and card only waste sign in manchester.

Can we collect from your office?

Yes. Once we email that the order is ready, collect from our Manchester office at Unit 3, 116 Bury New Road, M8 8EB.

Does shredded paper count?

Ask your collector. Some want it bagged separately.

Is there a version without "only"?

Yes, our paper recycling and mixed paper and card signs.

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