COMMON HOLIDAY ITEMS TO RECYCLE

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COMMON HOLIDAY
Items to Recycling
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Christmas Decorations  All those hanging balls,
holly, wreaths and other extravagant decorations
eventually die, and its possible for you to give
them a respectable, recycled burial when their
time of passing comes. Consider collecting and
recycling your Christmas decorations at
your local recycling depot. Things
like  Christmas trees Both artificial and real
trees.  Christmas lights.  Decorations.   Ornament
s.  Better yet, store them in your basement for
reuse next year. Youll save money on the cost of
buying replacement decorations and reduce
your environmental impact significantly more than
recycling, since even recycling requires
additional energy and resources.   
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• Almost all presents and gifts exchanged during
  the holiday season come delivered in some sort of
  wrapping product. Sure, it adds a level of
  mystery and suspense to the gift-giving
  experience, but it adds a significant amount of
  waste to landfill unless you recycle of
  course!  
• If you receive any of the following items during
  the holiday season, dont throw them away 
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• Bubble wrap and plastic bags 
• Cardboard boxes 
• Cards and envelopes 
• Foam packaging 
• Paper and gift bags 
• Plastic packaging 
• Ribbon and bows 
• Tissue paper 
• Wrapping paper 
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Wrapping Paper, Boxes, And Packaging 
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Your local recycling depot is able to take these
items and reuse or repurpose them to create an
array of new products and packaging for next
holiday season. Again, consider keeping useful
and undamaged packaging for reuse next year to
have the biggest impact.    Old Gifts  Yes,
grandma has a gift (excuse the pun!) for giving
presents that are, at times, less-than useful.
Fear not, as these useless old gifts that end up
collecting dust in a cupboard can be recycled as
well. Consider taking old toys and miscellaneous
junk to a thrift shop. You never know who might
find a use for the stuff you dont want, so its
a great idea to at least give someone an option
to reuse it. Itll give the charity behind the
scenes a means for donation collection as
well.   If you cant even give the stuff away,
which can happen in some cases (thanks for the
National Geographic stuffy Nan!), then your next
option is to seek out a recycling station that
accepts your gifts.    
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Batteries  Head to any modern toy hop and youll
be reminded just how far electronics and
technology reach into our lives. All the
electronic toys on the shelf require batteries,
and for the most part, these batteries are the
disposable, non-rechargeable type. Many of us are
accustomed to throwing your old batteries in the
trash, but there are better options than sending
the hazardous chemicals batteries contain to
landfill. All recycling depots are well equipped
to recycle batteries of all shapes and sizes.
Check at your local grocery or department store
too, as an increasing number of companies are
beginning to embrace battery recycling and offer
convenient disposal locations for their
customers. No matter how big or small, be sure to
take all the used batteries from those holiday
toys to be recycled, and reduce the increasing
amount of chemicals seeping into the ground
through landfills.   There are many common
holiday items you can consider recycling, and the
list above is by no means exhaustive. Become a
green advocate next holiday season and collect
unwanted gifts, packaging, decorations and
expired batteries and tidy up your home at the
same time as keeping our environment smiling. 
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