Successful recycling requires clean recovered paper, so you must keep your paper free from contaminants, such as food, plastic, and other which make metal recycled must paper difficult to recycle. Contaminated paper which cannot be burned for energy, or land filled. Recycling centers usually ask that you paper by grade, or type of local recycling center can tell you how to sort paper for recycling in your community. To locate your nearest dealer look in the yellow pages of your phone book under "waste paper" or "recycling.