Tips On How To Recycle This Holiday Season - The holiday season is filled with boxes, packages, wrapping paper and decorations, which also creates lot of waste. To effectively manage your waste is to know what items can be recycled.
We all get caught up in all the holiday trappings - especially the gifts. While we want to celebrate the holiday season, there are many ways we can minimize the amount of waste.
One way to ensure that the right items go into your recycling bin instead of the trash. Good recycling and sustainable ideas for the holidays.
- Save and reuse bows, ribbons and wrapping paper for next year.
- Ship your gifts with crumpled paper, reused bubble wrap or foam peanuts from the packages you have received.
- Choosing wrapping paper and gift bags is important as standard wrapping paper can be recycled, but not paper with glitter or foil cannot.
- Recycle cardboard shipping boxes. Packaging made of heavy cardboard is recyclable when the cardboard is separated from any plastic or tape.
Recycling practices to avoid -
- You are unable to recycle holiday cards and envelopes with glitter and foil.
- Packing supplies like foam peanuts, bubble wrap and other plastics are not recyclable. These items should be reused or become waste.
- Sticky gift name tags will cause packaging not to be recyclable. with recyclables.
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