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Get paper and card recycling all wrapped up this Christmas

by Paul Saunders on 19 December, 2016

Residents are being urged not to let Christmas waste go to landfill this festive season as a cardboard motorway stretching from Cambridge to Lapland and back could be made with all the card packaging consumed in Cambridgeshire at Christmas.

Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils have one of the best and easiest kerbside recycling systems in the country, with wrapping paper and Christmas cards being accepted in blue bins, and food waste and real Christmas trees being accepted in green bins.

Whether eating, gift-giving or celebrating with family and friends, you can guarantee that lots of paper and card will be exchanged along the way this Christmas. Buying a gift could involve online delivery card packaging, wrapping paper, the Christmas card and tag you sent with it and the cardboard packaging containing the gift itself. That is just one gift for one person! And when we consider that 20% of the whole year’s sales are made at Christmas, that is an overwhelming amount of paper and card that can be recycled in blue bins.

In Cambridge city, extra blue bin recycling can be taken to local recycling points at supermarkets and other public locations. An array of recyclable and non-recyclable items can be also taken to household recycling centres near Milton and Thriplow.

Real Christmas trees can be cut up and put in your green bin with the lid closed, taken to Cherry Hinton Hall car park after Christmas until 20 January, or to the recycling centres near Milton and Thriplow.

Cambridge City Council has also teamed up with the Arthur Rank Hospice and Just Helping for the second time to collect Christmas trees from homes while raising money for the hospice. Trees will be collected for a donation on 6 and 7 January. This service needs to be booked on the Arthur Rank Hospice’s website at www.arhc.org.uk/treerecycling. Last year just under £3,000 was raised by collecting over 400 Christmas trees.

City Council News release from 19 December 2016

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