Recycle for your community
Household Rubbish and Recycling Collections
Click here to visit the Stroud District Council page on Christmas collections.
Christmas Cards
Christmas cards can be recycled by using the cardboard recycling bank at your local community recycling site 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
Click here for details about recycling your Christmas tree.
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