 Photo of Bystock Ponds by Kate Williams
Merry Christmas!
Keep reading this festive Recycling and Waste newsletter to find lots of helpful information including👇
🗓️Recycling and Waste collection dates
♻️What can you recycle this Christmas?
🎄Where to recycle real Christmas trees
🗓️Recycling and Waste collection dates
 Collection dates return to normal from Monday, 15 January 2024
Recycling and waste collection dates will be affected by the Christmas bank holidays.
Kerbside collections of green waste will not take place between Monday, 18 December and Friday, 12 January.
🎁Can I recycle Christmas cards and wrapping paper?
 ✅ If they’re plain, you can put them in your recycling box.
❌If they have glitter or foil on them, we can’t accept them for recycling yet. Put these in your wheelie bin.
Cardboard
If you've been shopping online, you're likely to have lots of cardboard packaging. Please separate this from any other types of packaging, flatten it, and place it in your green box.
🥔Food leftovers
 Recycle Devon have shared some tips and tricks such as portion planning, adjusting your fridge temperature, and what to do with leftovers, to help you save money and avoid wasting Christmas food.
Make sure you put the following items in your food recycling caddy👇
✅ Fruit and vegetable peelings
✅ Cooked and uncooked food
✅ Meat and fish (bones are ok)
✅ Plate scrapings
✅ Cat and dog food
✅ Tea bags and coffee grounds
You can line your caddy with any plastic bag or newspaper.
🧃Food and drink containers and packaging
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Green box - glass bottles and jars
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Green sack - metal cans, foil, foil trays, cartons, and hard plastics (pots, tubs, trays, and bottles)
- We don't currently recycle soft plastics, but some shops such as Co-op, Morrisons and Tesco do
👚What to do with unwanted gifts
 As textiles that are collected will be reused, please keep your donations clean and dry
Instead of binning presents that you don't want, donate these to a charity shop or community group. Alternatively, you could give these items away or sell them online on places like Facebook Marketplace.
Good quality textiles and shoes can be bagged and placed securely in your kerbside green recycling box, to go to The Salvation Army for reuse or sale, supporting people in need.
🔋Small electrical items
If you've got any small old electrical items, Christmas lights that don't work, or flat batteries, put these in separate plastic bags in your green box.
🎄Where to recycle real Christmas trees
 If you have a real Christmas tree, and you've signed up for green waste collections, we can take your tree if it fits inside your green bin, with the lid closed and no branches are thicker than 10cm. To subscribe to the green waste service, head to the council's website.
There are also Christmas tree recycle points at towns across the district. To find out about the locations, times, and dates of these...
♻️For a full A-Z of what is recyclable and which container to use, head to the council's website.
Have you downloaded our free East Devon App yet?
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You can now use the East Devon App to find out more on how to recycle or dispose of many household items. Use the new 'Recycling Info' section and begin typing to find out.
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