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nikkival 24-12-2007 10:17

Does Wrapping Paper Recycle?
 
Does anyone know if the council takes away wrapping paper in the recycling bag or should it go in the general rubbish? I've tried ringing but no answer at the council!

MargaretR 24-12-2007 10:24

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Paper is paper (even when coloured)- mine will get recycled (folded neatly for reuse next year :D)

egg&chips 24-12-2007 10:27

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Originally Posted by nikkival (Post 507212)
Does anyone know if the council takes away wrapping paper in the recycling bag or should it go in the general rubbish? I've tried ringing but no answer at the council!

Mrs Chips says it depends on the paper. If it's normal, tape-free stuff with no metallic bits then it can be recycled. Otherwise it can't - a guy came in from the council to talk to her school last year. I don't argue with her, I know my place.

mickmc 25-12-2007 07:25

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Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 507214)
Paper is paper (even when coloured)- mine will get recycled (folded neatly for reuse next year :D)

Actually, as someone who works where it is made, there are actually 2 different types of "paper"

1 plain good old "paper" printed any colour you like !!!

2 laminated "film onto paper" gives a shiny thicker paper and can be coloured, or metallic or holographic

How do you know which ????

tear em !!! - plain paper rips easily as normal whereas its hard to rip the film laminated stuff, as you will be trying to rip a plastic film

So in reality - the laminated should be put in the non-recyclable bin as it is a plastic, but not a recyclable one


Seasons Greetings Everybody

WillowTheWhisp 25-12-2007 14:06

Re: Does Wrapping Paper Recycle?
 
Well I've just put all ours in a sack for Ernest Street.

fc:stanley 25-12-2007 18:12

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Nikkival you can always give it to our church ernest street :)

jackyalex 25-12-2007 18:22

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our council wont recycle wrapping paper, i dont know why but they dont recycle much

garinda 25-12-2007 23:39

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I still think Hyndburn Borough Council should use their website to give a more detailed guide, as to what can, and can't, be recycled.

Christmas cards, paper or card?

Margarine and yoghurt tubs, can they go in the plastic bottle sack?

Plus countless other products and their packaging.

It's months since I first suggested it. It would literally take someone a couple of hours to do it, and could save tons of waste being unnecessarily sent to landfill sites.

HBC, like we have to...sort it.

MargaretR 25-12-2007 23:46

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I once got info from them by email-
Cat food pouches, which the manufacturers describe as foil, aren't foil for recycling purposes, but the cat food foil containers with the peel back lids, are.

I am meticulous about cardboard - even recycle the innards of toilet rolls and Rizla paper tiny boxes :D

WillowTheWhisp 26-12-2007 15:44

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I wonder loads of time if I'm contaminating the recyclables by putting things in that don't belong - or risking a fine by putting recyclables in the wheelie bin.

derekgas 26-12-2007 16:34

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We used to put plastic packing in the sack, along with milk bottles, margerine cartons etc, came home to find that half the stuff put in the sack was still in it, no explanation, and some of it was in the garden, we just put the stuff in that we know they will take now, it's bad enough that we do all the work for the council to make all the money, but to filter what they don't want is, to my mind, ridiculous!

WillowTheWhisp 26-12-2007 17:46

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They should make a proper list of what can go in where and let us all know in the Observer or on their Website or even a leaflet when the recycling bags are returned - not that our newspaper one ever gets returned.

panther 27-12-2007 18:00

Re: Does Wrapping Paper Recycle?
 
I didnt recycle my wrapping paper:o
its usually full of tape and i sur ccouldnt be bothererd taking it all off!!
but i have recycled all my cardboard from the kids presents:D
so im happy with that, and they took it all too...cant help wondering why i was the only one with cardboard outside my house:rolleyes:

WillowTheWhisp 27-12-2007 19:41

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Maybe everybody else is saving it for Ernest Street.

wubberduck 27-12-2007 22:22

Re: Does Wrapping Paper Recycle?
 
Most if not all of the information is in this link


Recycling - Where does all the material go?

garinda 27-12-2007 23:00

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Originally Posted by wubberduck (Post 508505)
Most if not all of the information is in this link


Recycling - Where does all the material go?

That doesn't give details about what is, and isn't, recyclable.

Plastic bottles. Shampoo bottles, are they fine, but plastic margarine tubs aren't.

It needs more clarification.

Are Christmas cards carboard or paper?

panther 28-12-2007 10:04

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xmas cards to me are paper garinda, but i cut mine up and use them as gift tags next year:D

garinda 28-12-2007 15:15

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Originally Posted by panther (Post 508626)
xmas cards to me are paper garinda, but i cut mine up and use them as gift tags next year:D


Next year please make sure the tag on my present is made from the attractive front of the card, and not the back.:D

Tombraider 29-12-2007 03:35

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 508692)
Next year please make sure the tag on my present is made from the attractive front of the card, and not the back.:D


This made me laugh because while I was wrapping up the last minute bits on christmas eve I ran out of tags, so I started cutting up some cards. I eventually ran out of pictures from the front of them :eek: So i had to cut patterns out of the backs to use too :o:D


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