Recycling during festivities
Tips on reducing waste over the festive period.
Greeting cards
Some charity shops collect cards for recycling. Check your local shop to see if they are collecting. You can also recycle cards in your blue box or mixed paper, card and cartons recycling bin.
Paper and wrapping
- TV guides, other paper and magazines: Can be recycled in your blue box or mixed paper, card and cartons recycling bin.
- Foil or plastic coated wrapping paper: We cannot recycle it. Try tearing a corner of the paper – if it stretches instead of tearing then it has a plastic film so please do not put this in your recycling box or bin. However, if it is in usable condition, why not keep it to reuse or donate it to Scrapstore? Please try to remove tape, ribbons and other decorations from wrapping paper before recycling.
- Paper plates: We cannot recycle them if they are contaminated with food residue.
- Cardboard boxes: Please flatten before putting in your recycling container.
- Net covers: Can be bought online for your kerbside box to stop the contents being blown around in the wind. They cost of £1.10 plus postage and packaging. Also available from the Civic Centre in Twickenham.
Cans, glass plastic bottles and foil
- Household plastic containers like yoghurt pots, fruit trays and margarine tubs; cans and tins; aerosols; glass bottles and jars; plastic bottles and foil can be recycled in your black box or mixed containers recycling bin.
- Larger items, like empty biscuit or chocolate tins, can be recycled at Townmead Road Re-use and Recycling Centre if they won’t fit in your containers.
Battery recycling
Large retailers (such as supermarkets) that sell batteries should have recycling containers for returning them, or you can take them to Townmead Road Re-use and Recycling Centre. Alternatively, why not use reusable batteries?
Christmas tree recycling
Find out more about Christmas tree recycling.