Your Christmas trash sorting guide for P.E.I., 2022 version
So you have opened the presents and your lounge is a sea of wrapping paper, ribbons and cardboard.
Now what?
Island Waste Administration hopes you’ll resist the temptation to throw all of it collectively and drop it on the curb.
In spite of everything, no one likes to see that orange rejection sticker on their bins or blue baggage!
Island Waste checked our rubbish listing twice for accuracy. Here is what to do with some frequent Christmas objects.
Wrapping paper
It is compost until it has plastic or foil on it. Then it is waste.
Greeting playing cards
Greeting playing cards are compost until they’ve plastic, foil, ribbons, or different waste objects on the playing cards, wherein case the complete card goes within the waste.
If the greeting card has a battery, take away the battery and recycle it at a recycling assortment location.
Present baggage
In the event that they’re shiny with a plastic coating, they’re waste.
However, Island Waste Administration mentioned you probably have a present bag that’s brown paper with brown paper handles, that may be recycled so it may go together with your corrugated cardboard or blue bag primary (paper objects).
Brown paper packaging
That is recyclable, and may go along with corrugated cardboard or in a blue bag primary (paper objects).
Ribbons, bows and tinsel
Waste, waste and waste.
Tissue paper
Compost, even when it has traces of glitter.
Island Waste mentioned it’s going to settle for small quantity of contamination on it.
Bubble wrap
No recycling quantity on it? Put it within the waste. (After you have popped it, after all).
Boxboard
Boxboard? Assume cereal packing containers, frozen pizza packing containers or folding present packing containers for sweaters.
Island Waste mentioned the distinction is with corrugated cardboard you’ve gotten the 2 flat layers with the wavy layer within the centre.
Put boxboard within the compost, whereas its cousin, corrugated cardboard, goes in recycling.
Picket packing containers
It is perhaps tempting to place these wood packing containers within the compost, however do not. They go within the black waste bin.
You probably have a clementine field, the clementines and their peelings can go in compost, although.
Christmas lights
If there’s a plastic cowl over the lights, and it would not have a recycling quantity on it, pull it off and put it in waste. The remainder goes within the recycling blue bag quantity two (plastic, steel, glass objects) — bulb or no bulb.
If you will get the bulb out, take the bulbs out and take them to the Waste Watch drop-off centre for mild bulb recycling, Island Waste mentioned.
If they will not come out, go away them with the string of lights and put them in blue bag quantity two (plastic, steel, glass objects) for recycling.
Christmas tree
Curbside assortment for Christmas timber begins the week of Jan. 9. Timber need to be curbside by 7 a.m. AT, and drivers should not in a position to come again if timber should not out in time.
Have in mind, timber will not be collected on the identical day as common rubbish pickup.
Anybody whose spiritual traditions will probably be affected by the pickup date are inspired to name IWMC for preparations. For instance, some Islanders could also be celebrating Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7.
Listed below are the principles for discarded Christmas timber: No ornaments on them, no tinsel, no tree heavier than 23 kilograms (50 kilos) or longer than 2.4 metres (eight ft). If it is longer or heavier than that, you possibly can lower it in half.
Be sure that the tree is not caught in snow or lined with snow so the drivers can entry it, Island Waste mentioned.
Residential clients also can drop off their timber at Waste Watch Drop-Off Centres freed from cost throughout January.
A number of Island goat farms have additionally registered for the IWMC Christmas Tree Program. Take a look at IWMC’s listing of registered farmers on its web site, and prepare to ship your tree on to the farmer if you want.
