 Buying cards and wrapping paper?
Over Christmas and New Year we produce on average a third more waste than normal, most of which can be recycled!
According to Recycle Now, the UK is estimated to use almost 300,000 tonnes of card packaging at Christmas – a staggering amount! In fact all the card packaging used at Christmas could cover Big Ben almost 260,000 times!
Please try and think in advance about things you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle during the festive period. So if you're starting to prepare for Christmas and you're buying cards and wrapping paper, please consider if they are recyclable before you buy.
Click on the video below and let Santa show you how to do the scrunch test...
 Think about...
- Buying cards without glitter, foil, beads or any non paper attachments.
- Using wrapping paper which doesn't have any sparkly or plastic coating.
- Trying to avoid plastic wrapping and polystyrene packaging where possible.
- Using aluminium baking trays and serving dishes, and recycle them along with any other tin foil and sweet wrappers.
- Buying drinks in glass bottles and cans rather than plastic bottles as they can both be recycled endlessly whereas plastic is limited.
Please make recycling part of your Christmas preparations!
 Before you get really busy with all the festivities, make sure you put your bin collection dates for Christmas and New Year in your calendar.
Look out for a bin hanger which will be put on one of your bins which will remind you.
General waste and recycling bins -
If your bin is due to be emptied on Christmas Day, it will be emptied earlier, on Saturday 22nd December.
If your bin is due to be emptied on Boxing Day, it will be collected the following Saturday, 29th December.
If your bin is due to be emptied on New Year's Day, it will be emptied on Saturday 5th January 2019 instead.
Scheduled collections on any other days remain the same as normal.
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The household waste recycling centres are open at these times over the festive period:
 Mon 24 December : 8am to 5pm
Tues 25 December : CLOSED
Wed 26 December : CLOSED
Thurs 27 December : 8am to 5pm
Fri 28 December : 8am to 5pm
Sat 29 December : 8am to 4pm
Sun 30 December : 9am to 4pm
Mon 31 December : 8am to 5pm
Tues 1 January 2019: CLOSED
Find your nearest household waste recycling centre
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Don't forget, there are no garden waste collections between Monday 3 December 2018 and Weds 2 January 2019.
 Save those remaining autumn leaves and winter jobs in the garden until we start collecting again in January!
Don't forget, you can chop up your Christmas tree and put it in your garden waste bin or take it to your local household waste recycling centre.
Some local charities also collect Christmas trees for a small donation to charity.
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