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Some useful Christmas recycling tips

Ref : 09/111 : Date : 15-12-2009

• There will not be any collections on :
  - Christmas Day, Monday 28th December 2009, or
  - New Year's Day Friday 1st January 2010
• There will be no garden waste collections from Christmas Day, 25th Friday 2009 until Monday 11th January 2010.
• Real Christmas trees can be recycled from 11th January 2010. Please place your tree on the kerbside on the same day as your refuse collection. This will then be collected and sent for composting. Alternatively, take to the HWRS (household waste recycling sites) at Brighton Road Shoreham-by-Sea or Dominion Way, Worthing. Please remove all decorations.
• Wrapping paper, not metallic, and greetings cards can be recycled in your blue lidded bin, or cut them into gift tags for Christmas next year.
• Buy Christmas trees with roots so they can be planted in the garden in spring or alternatively buy an artificial Christmas tree that can be used year after year.
• Buy rechargeable instead of disposable batteries.
• Compost fruit and vegetable peelings from the preparation of Christmas dinner.

Christmas Facts …

• One billion Christmas cards (17 for every man, woman and child) are sent and could end up in bins across the UK.
• Around 25,000 hectares of Christmas trees are currently growing in the UK - that's over twice the size of the City of Manchester.
• This Christmas, 10 million turkeys will be sold in the UK, weighing a massive 55,000 tonnes - that's equivalent to more than 620,000 Santas weighing an average of 14 stone each!

See also : Christmas and New Year in Adur - Festive information

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