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Dreaming of a green Christmas
The amount of rubbish thrown out by Hull residents goes up by a third over Christmas and New Year – so here are some festive recycling tips
- Cut down on Christmas cards by sending email greeting cards instead of paper ones. If you can't do without sending a card, make sure the ones you buy are made of recycled paper. Charity shops sell a good range of these.
- Buy soft drinks in large containers. A large bottle results in much less waste than several small cans.
- Say no to unnecessary carrier bags. When doing your Christmas shopping, reuse your plastic bags or take a reusable shopping bag.
- Reuse your wrapping paper. Remove paper carefully from your presents and use it again for wrapping up presents, flower bouquets and wine bottles or even to cover books.
- Take any unwanted presents to your local school, play centre or charity shop.
- If you buy electrical goods as presents, try to find products that run off mains electricity rather than batteries. If they do need batteries, choose rechargeable ones over disposables. That way you create less waste.
- Buy Christmas presents made from recyclable materials. There are a huge variety of these products available, including clothing, bags, drinking glasses and cushions. For more info visit www.recycledproducts.org.uk
- Reuse your Christmas cards by using them to make tags for presents.
Recycle cards and trees
More than 15,000 real Christmas trees and a million cards will be thrown away in Hull after Christmas.
Trees can be recycled by being chipped, shredded and turned into compost to help vegetables and other plants grow.
So come Twelfth Night, take them to the household waste and recycling centres at Burma Drive, Wilmington, Sutton Fields and Wiltshire Road.
You can also take cards to the centres, or to local branches of WH Smith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer, between January 2 and 31.
Black boxes and blue bins
You can use your black box to recycle plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, tins, cans, aluminium foil, aerosol containers and textiles.
Use your blue bin to recycle newspapers and magazines, and the wrapping from the presents you receive.
Merry Christmas!
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