NOW that Christmas is all wrapped up Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is urging residents to recycle more over the festive period.
There is no limit to how much can be recycled, with any extra recycling being put in clear sacks which are available from larger supermarkets and homeware stores.
If these clear sacks are left alongside, flattened cardboard boxes next to your recycling bin they will be collected.
There are lots of items that can be recycled including cardboard packaging, paper, newspapers and magazines, food tins, drinks cans, aerosols and plastic bottles.
Christmas wrapping paper cannot be recycled and needs to go into people’s black waste bins.
If residents are unsure about what can and can’t be recycled, visit basingstoke.gov.uk/recycle or call the council on 01256 844844.
Christmas can mean extra rubbish which can’t be recycled, so extra sacks will be collected for the first collection after Christmas only.
This year bin collections will be affected over two weeks and, unless adverse weather affects bin rounds, collections should return to normal from Monday, 14 January.
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