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Can you recycle wrapping paper?
We throw away an estimated 227,000 miles of wrapping paper each year at Christmas in the UK, according to waste management company BIFFA.

That’s enough to wrap around the Earth… more than eight times.

But it brands itself as paper – so surely it all just gets recycled?

The short answer? Not always.

And that’s because gift wrap often contains much more than simply paper.

“It’s a nightmare for paper mills this time of year,” confesses Simon Ellin, the chief executive of the Recycling Association – a trade body that represents around 90 different paper merchants, waste management companies and other businesses involved in recycling paper.

That’s because while they’re presented with mountains of wrapping paper, they cannot work with all of it.

“Not all wrapping paper is paper,” Simon points out. Some is plastic-based.

Then there’s the issue of paper that’s laminated with plastic not to mention gift tags or paper that contains foil or glitter, none of which can be recycled.

But once you’ve removed these items you can recycle a good deal of what you’ve wrapped your presents in, just as long as it’s pure paper.

How do you check? Try to scrunch up the paper into a ball. If it scrunches, and stays scrunched, it can probably be recycled.

And if you’ve bought recycled wrapping paper in the first place, it can probably be recycled again.

So you’ve got recyclable wrapping paper – what do you do with it?

Even if your paper is recyclable – not all councils will take it.
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