recycling wrapping paper

[mckenzie]

Am i right in thinking that I cannot recycle wrapping paper in my clack box as I would newspapers?

Do I have to take it somewhere special does anybody know? I have checked my council's website but there is no mention of wrapping paper.

TIA

I decided to take all the sellotape off wrapping paper so it could go in my paper bin so they best blinking take it!
DS was taking an age playing with ech toy anyway so just ripped the taped bts off as he was playing, felt quite smug about it!

My thought was it is only like magazine paper, and it is only the sellotape that might hamper it being recycled. I am prepared for them to not take though and have to explain I have removed all the tape.

You can't recycle any paper with metallic print on it.

oh god do we really need to take off all the tape

I wish i'd known that when I bought mine PoinsettiaB

Rubbish Poinsetta!! Get it all in yer normal recycling, they will deal with it.

oh no don't say i have to fish out all the paper to get the sellotape off! it's buried under untold amounts of vegetable peelings and rabbit hay

I've talked to someone (high up) in our County Council about this. In our county they won't recycle paper with any metal in it. At Christmas this means that they discard any wrapping paper at all as tis too difficult/expensive to sort wrapping papers out.

problem is, chardonnay, that if there's too much 'rubbish' mixed in (eg sellotape, metallic paper, sometimes envelopes with windows, sometimes phonebooks) then they can't sell the paper bundles and they just dump them. i have very unwillingly been made to realise, by friends who know about these things, that there are times when it is responsible to recycle LESS, because you can contaminate a whole baleful of stuff by putting in the wrong things...

I try to re-use as much of it as poss, after all small people dont notice if its not pristine second time around.

They won't deal with it - TBH they'll probably chuck any wrapping paper straight in the landfill. They don't really have time to sort through what is good or bad paper.

Well I'm still chucking mine in with the recycling!

Ime using mine to make paper logs.

where did you get the bags from please Cali?

Our council won't take any wrapping paper or cards. I've no idea what I'll do with it all - burn it???

I think cards can go to those big collection boxes they have in supermarkets or WHS?

here you are

We burnt our wrapping paper over Christmas in the fire in the lounge, which was lovely, as the flames were such pretty colours.

I would second anyone who says dont put it in with the usual paper recycling - however annoying it is - its better than a whole lorry load of paper going to landfill because I put a few bits of the wrong sort of paper in

Yes, they have those here, F&Z but it annoys me muchly that the only kerbside reycling our council provides is paper and then they issue a long list of exclusions which include the aforementioned and such items as envelopes, anything shiny, anything grey and so on and so forth. In fact, it seems that nothing papery at all should be included in our paper bins.

I burned mine in the fire.

We usually keep it all then build a big bonfire in the garden for New Year's Eve' and have people round for drinks. For the past few years we've made a tradition of writing down the things from the old year we'd like to turn our backs on and throwing them in the fire.