{"id":246529,"date":"2025-12-22T21:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/246529\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:50:13","slug":"tips-for-recycling-smarter-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/246529\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for recycling smarter this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Christmas, Repak is encouraging Irish households and businesses to recycle smarter.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s rinsing a foil tray after dinner or ensuring a yoghurt pot is free from food residue, these small, everyday actions play a vital role in helping Ireland achieve its ambitious recycling targets.<\/p>\n

Tips for recycling smarter:<\/b><\/p>\n

Clean, Dry, and Loose:<\/b> These are the golden rules for recycling. Rinse containers, let them dry, and avoid putting recyclables in plastic bags.<\/p>\n

What Goes Where:<\/b> Paper, cardboard, plastics, and metals are recyclable, but watch out for contaminants like food residue or mixed materials (e.g., bubble-lined envelopes).<\/p>\n

Local Recycling Centres:<\/b> For items like glass, batteries, and electronics, bring them to civic amenity sites instead of your household bin.<\/p>\n

Make It a Family Affair: <\/b>Post a simple recycling guide in your kitchen and encourage accountability across all household members.<\/p>\n

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Christmas Recycling Tips<\/b><\/p>\n

Quite simply, there are three categories of materials: paper <\/b>and cardboard<\/b>; plastics<\/b>; and metals<\/b>, tins <\/b>and foil<\/b>. These are the different types of packaging items that can go in your recycling bin \u2013 clean, dry and loose.<\/p>\n

Remember, while most varieties of wrapping paper<\/b> and gift cards<\/b> can go in the recycling bin, glitter and sellotape can not. Glitters and metallic shapes used in gift wrap can make it non-recyclable.<\/p>\n

Likewise, tinsel <\/b>cannot be recycled due to its metallic content.<\/p>\n

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The plastic trays<\/b> layered in your tins of biscuits, chocolates and mince pies can all go in the recycling bin – but they must be wiped down first.<\/p>\n

The plastic wrapping<\/b> holding the bread for your many, many Christmas sandwiches can go in the recycling bin – but the crumbs can’t.<\/p>\n

Bubble wrap <\/b>and packaging boxes <\/b>can be recycled. Be sure to remove any adhesives (sellotape and labels) and pack them away clean, dry and loose.<\/p>\n

Visit Repak.ie<\/a> for more tips, recycling guides, and to take your pledge to recycle better in 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Christmas, Repak is encouraging Irish households and businesses to recycle smarter. Whether it\u2019s rinsing a foil tray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-246529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115765433572290091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}