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Everything you need to know about recycling your Christmas crap

Christmas is a time of plenty, including plenty of garbage. Here’s a quick guide to what you can and can’t put in your recycling bins.
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The carnage of Christmas leaves plenty of things to recycle.

Christmas is a time of plenty, including plenty of garbage. Here’s a quick guide to what you can and can’t put in your recycling bins.

 

Recycle

  • paper gift wrap
  • cartons
  • cups
  • paper bags
  • foil trays
  • tins
  • plastic containers
  • boxes

Don’t recycle

  • foil gift wrap
  • ribbons and bows
  • Christmas lights
  • toys
  • padded envelopes
  • electronics and small appliances
  • wooden food crates
  • batteries

Have a doubt? Go to recyclebc.ca and put your query in the “What I can recycle” field.

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