Citizen magazine Winter 2024 - text version - Recycling at Christmas

Recycling at Christmas   

Not long to go now until households throughout Norwich will be full of Christmas cards, wrapping paper and festive cheer. We thought it would be helpful to remind you what you can recycle and what you can’t.

Yes please!

All items must be clean and dry. Items must be placed loose in the bin (no carrier bags!)

• Paper: including newspapers, white and coloured paper, greeting cards (no glitter please), envelopes, junk mail and wrapping paper (make sure you do the scrunch test: if you scrunch paper into a ball and it stays scrunched it can be recycled)
• Cardboard: including boxes, packaging, carrier trays and corrugated cardboard
• Food and drink cartons
• Aluminium foil and trays, aluminium and steel tins, cans and aerosols
• Glass bottles and jar shaped food and drink containers
• Plastic bottles: such as those that contain drink and food, hygiene/beauty products, cleaning products, cooking oil and medication
• Plastic food tubs, pots and trays
• Advent calendars (separate the plastic insert, any foil and the cardboard box).

No thanks!

• Nappies (the cardboard box can be recycled)
• Tissues and used kitchen wipes
• Soft plastics: including crisp packets, sweet wrappers, plastic bags, cling film and cellophane
• Hard plastics: toys, broken garden furniture, plant pots and polystyrene
• Sharps items: please dispose of any sharps responsibly
• Glass cookware and ovenware, drinking glasses or ceramics
• Cutlery, crockery, pots and pans

Batteries and electrical items

Batteries can cause a fire if placed in your normal
recycling or waste bin. Be safe and recycle them properly!
Place your small electrical items and household batteries in separate carrier bags and put them next to your refuse or recycling bin on collection day.
* Please don’t include light bulbs, fluorescents, car/industrial batteries.

Your collection dates during the festive period

For Christmas and New Year collection dates, visit www.norwich.gov.uk/ FestiveBinCollections
For more information about what you can recycle in Norwich, visit www.norwich.gov.uk/ recycling