Christmas where you live: Cheltenham 2011
Household Rubbish and Recycling Collections
Click here to visit the Cheltenham Borough Council page on Christmas collections.
Christmas Cards
Christmas cards can be recycled by placing them in your kerbside recycling box, or by using cardboard recycling banks at your local community-recycling site, Swindon Road Recycling Centre or Household Recycling Centre. For more information click here.
Please do not recycle cards with excessive amounts of glitter, plastic trim or electronic parts.
Christmas Trees
All residents can have their trees collected for composting this year. Trees should be put out at the kerbside on the same day as the refuse is due for collection in the two weeks between 9 and 20 January. Christmas trees up to five feet or one and a half metres tall can be left out whole. Trees larger than this need to be cut down before being put out for collection. The council also accepts Christmas trees at its Swindon Road recycling centre.
Trees can also be taken to any of the Household Recycling Centres in Gloucestershire. Please click here for more information.
Wrapping Paper
Please consider using a traditional stocking instead of wrapping paper.
Unfortunately, the general rule is that wrapping paper cannot be accepted for recycling as it is often dyed or laminated, or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver coloured shapes.
Glitter and plastics cannot be recycled, and could mean the whole load may have to be landfilled. The only exception to this is where you are 100% sure, the paper you want to recycle is untreated and contains no glitter plastic or sticky tape.
You could also think about using brown paper and ribbon to wrap your gifts.
14 December 2011