Contact your local authority to find out what you can recycle where

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Try sending e-cards for festive greetings and thank you messages to reduce card waste – visit www.wasteawarenesswales.org.uk/e-cards/index.html to send your free e-cards;
When doing your Christmas shopping, take a reusable cloth bag or ‘bag for life’ with you;
Make Christmas parties eco-parties; avoid disposable plates and cups and recycle any cans or bottles;
A third of the food we buy is thrown away, so take steps to reduce the amount of food that ends up in landfill sites;
It’s not always easy to recycle wrapping paper. If you do wrap your presents, try fastening the wrapping with a piece of string or ribbon - you can reuse the paper, string and ribbon next Christmas;
When Christmas is over, even your tree can be recycled - contact your local authority to see if it has a scheme for chipping trees to produce park and garden mulch;
Recycle any cards you receive – between 2-31 January 2009 The Woodland Trust will be collecting cards at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks and Spencer for recycling. Try making gift tags for next year from the pictures on the front as well;
And don’t forget to recycle all your newspapers, magazines and TV guides.