Check out the new blog from our returning guest, Abbie from Fulfilled: Plastic Free Shop for some really easy things you can do to avoid unnecessary waste in the lead up to Christmas.
As well as shampoo bottles and shower gel bottles from the bathroom you can also recycle deodorant cans, glass perfume bottles and face cream jars from the bedroom.
Find out what else you can recycle at home.
When you’re choosing your cards and wrapping paper this year, avoid those with glitter. This is because glitter is made from plastic and can’t be separated out from the paper and card fibres during the recycling process.
Not all wrapping paper is actually paper. Some is made with plastic or foil. To check if it can be recycled, try the scrunch test. If you can scrunch the paper into a ball and it stays scrunched, you can recycle it.
Have you just unpacked last year’s decorations to find your fairy lights don’t work anymore?
Christmas tree lights, wires, cables and other electrical items can’t go in any of your bins at home.
You can recycle them to your local Recycling Centre.
Before you recycle your real Christmas tree, you need to remove all decorations such as baubles, fairy lights and tinsel.
Find out how you can recycle your Christmas tree at home.
