After a wonderful and busy Christmas, its item to clear up the house and get ready for the New Year. Clearing up does not necessarily mean binning everything you don’t need, but recycling anything that can be recycled.

Leftover food – over the Christmas an estimated 10 million turkeys, 370 million mince pies and 25 million Christmas puddings will be taken home, and on average about one quarter of this will be thrown in the bin. This is the best time to become a creative chef and find ways of cooking up something special with leftover food.

Christmas trees – can be taken to any one of the collection points across the Borough or the recycling centre or be left outside the house for collection.

Christmas cards – you received loads of cards but have no space or intention to keep them. Don’t just bin them recycle them with your household cardboard recycling, it could be a wheelie bin or a green box.

Wrapping Paper – many wrapping papers can be kept and reused but there are some that you rip open in many pieces, which you end up throwing in the bin. Rather than just binning the unwanted wrapping paper, why not recycle it. Wrapping papers can be placed in the recycling box or wheelie bin.

Unwanted presents – there always gifts that you either return or give away to someone else but there are also many gifts that you think are best thrown away. If that’s the case then think twice and donate it to a charity shop rather than just throw it out or put away, never to be used.

Electrical items – you have received many new electrical items and want to throw the old electrical items. Again many electrical items can be recycled at any recycling centres.

Gather everything you don’t need or want and sort them in to piles of what can be recycled and what cannot. Once all is done you are ready for the next round of madness!