Here are some top tips for a greener Christmas:
If Santa has been kind to you, with plenty of new goodies, so why not make space for them by recycling your unwanted items or taking them for reuse at a charity shop? Once Christmas is over remember you can send your real Christmas tree for composting by cutting it up and placing it in your garden waste bin (or your local household waste recycling centre). Home composting is a great way of getting rid of all those extra Christmas vegetable peelings, fruit scraps, tea bags, shredded cardboard and paper. If you’ve received new electrical items, remember unwanted but working ones could be reused by your local furniture project. To find out more about furniture projects. Go to www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recycling. Broken electrical items can be recycled at your nearest household waste recycling centre. Other schemes and charity shops also take a range of working items for reuse. Christmas cards may be included within your cardboard recycling collection. To find our more go to www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recycling.