How to recycle your Christmas waste
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Recycle more this Christmas
Christmas trees
Natural Christmas trees can be put out for collection in – or next to - your garden waste collection bin. However, if it’s more than five feet tall it must first be chopped into smaller pieces. Trees will also be accepted for recycling at each of Shropshire’s household recycling centres. All trees will be shredded and composted along with the garden waste and cardboard and used on local farmland. Artificial trees cannot be recycled, but can be reused next year!
Christmas cards
Christmas cards can be put out for collection with your cardboard collection or placed in the cardboard skips at the household recycling centres. Do not add Christmas Cards that include novelty music and glitter.
Cards can be taken to branches of WH Smith, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer througout January, to support The Woodland Trust.
Wrapping paper
As long as it is not metallic or plastic-coated, wrapping paper can be recycled with other paper using your kerbside collection, household recycling centre or recycling bank.
Cardboard
Cardboard packaging from presents and items bought in the sales should be flattened and put out for collection in your garden waste bin, or taken to one of Shropshire's household recycling centres. Please remember to remove any tape from the cardboard and do not include any box packaging that is not cardboard.
Glass jars, bottles and cans
Make use of your kerbside collection, household recycling centre or recycling bank and recycle all the jars, bottles and cans that you use over the festive period. Please remember to wash your jars and cans.
Plastic bottles
Rinse out your bottles, remove the lids, and take them to a household recycling centre or recycling bank.
Love Food Hate Waste
Each month, the average family throws away £50 of food that was bought but not eaten! To save money and reduce food waste this Christmas visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/shropshire for hints, tips and recipe ideas.
Make a new year’s resolution that you can keep - recycle more!