It brands itself as paper - so can it be recycled? The short answer? Not always. It can be tricky to know what to do with leftover paper. If your paper is itself recycled, or if you can scrunch it, then you should be able to recycle it. Related Topics. Published 20 December Published 17 December Published 11 December Pack your packaging. Before you recycle the boxboard, plastic, and all the little bits of a package, remember that all material has to be separated.
Please remove the plastic from the cardboard before recycling, and take off all the little plastic attachments and twist ties that may have held the toy or item in place.
Those little plastic bits and twist ties are garbage. Have a designated sorter on Christmas morning. Help out your collection driver and sort using two or more blue boxes. Otherwise they take up so much room in the recycling trucks that they have to make extra trips, requiring more energy and eating up all the net good recycling would have done in the first place.
Boxes with a single strip of plastic tape are okay too. As you engage in the oddly satisfying task of breaking down boxes, ponder that everything you're tossing in the recycle bin will most likely come back to you next year.
Many of the the items we order online are made in China, notes Reed. Those items come in cardboard boxes. The boxes are made in China. Facebook Twitter Email. Bows, glitter, ribbon are not recyclable. If it stretches, it's plastic.
Old fairy lights can be recycled as e-waste — just don't pop them in your yellow reycling bin. These can't go in the recycling bin because they're electronic. And because they're long and stringy, they get caught in the conveyer belts at recycling stations. But they can be recycled as e-waste. Most Australian councils have a regular system for e-waste recycling such as booked kerbside collections or dedicated drop-off days, such as The City of Sydney's Recycle it Saturday.
These, along with aluminium foil, are accepted for recycling almost everywhere. Just make sure you remove food scraps and oil, and roll the foil into a 3D or ball shape. If aluminium is flat, the paper-sorting fans in the recycling station wrongly pick it up and send it to the paper collection area. Generally, these are considered a major contaminant and should go in the landfill bin. That's because they don't melt at the same temperature as bottle and jar glass during the recycling process, causing lumps in the molten material.
But there are some exceptions. For example, the Moyne Shire Council in Victoria runs a broken glass collection service, using a separate bin, for the purpose of road surfacing.
Check with your council to see if it does something similar. You can't recycle wine and champagne corks in your yellow bin. But private recycling company TerraCycle does offer a recycling service for natural or synthetic corks for a fee. When batteries have outlived their use in a remote controlled car or light sabre, they can be recycled as e-waste.
Take extra care with button batteries that are small enough to be swallowed by children — they can be lethal. Ideally, try to reduce the number of button batteries in your household, but if you do have any and plan to recycle, cover them in sticky tape while you wait to dispose of them. This makes them bulkier and reduces the risk of a child getting them all the way down their throat if they swallow one. You can't recycle these because they may be contaminated with food. But even if you haven't used them, the fibres are too short to be used again.
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