ALTHOUGH you may not be able to put your Christmas wrapping paper in your kerbside collection box (Letters, January 3), you can still recycle it!
Both wrapping paper and Sellotape (which is made of cellulose) can be easily recycled in a normal compost bin.
The best way to compost any paper is to scrunch it up into a ball and, since that is what typically happens to wrapping paper on Christmas Day, it is perfect to go straight on to the compost heap.
We recommend that Christmas cards are recycled via the Woodland Trust collection points in Tesco and WH Smith, but your other card and cardboard can all be composted.
Other leftover items from Christmas, such as wine corks, burst balloons, party hats etc, can be composted too.
For more information or help in getting started with composting, phone me on 411821.
Keely Mellor,
York Rotters Project
Co-ordinator,
Friends of St Nicholas Fields,
York Environmental Community Centre,
Bull Lane, York.
Updated: 09:09 Friday, January 06, 2006
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