Recycling - Holiday Wrapping Paper

Recycling Information - Gift and Holiday Wrapping paper

This holiday season marks the 25th year that gift wrap will be accepted for recycling in Oneida and Herkimer counties.

* To recycle holiday gift wrap, fold or flatten the gift wrap and place it loosely in your recycling container. Do not put gift wrap or recyclable material in plastic bags. Do not recycle foil or metallic wrapping paper or metallic ribbon or tape. Wrapping paper will only be accepted during the two weeks after Christmas.

* Cardboard tubes from gift wrap also may be placed in your recycling container.

* Greeting cards can be recycled. Each year, 2.65 billion holiday cards are sold in the U.S. That is enough to fill a football field 10 stories high. Place greeting cards, catalogs, gift boxes and other recyclable paper in with your regular recyclables. These items can be recycled all year long.

* Styrofoam and packing peanuts are not recyclable and should be placed with your regular trash.

* Broken or unwanted holiday lights cannot be placed in your recycling bin. The CNY Veterans Outreach is accepting donations of old holiday lights. The lights will be recycled and proceeds will go toward the construction of housing units for homeless Veterans. The Veterans Outreach Center is at 726 Washington St. in Utica and is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. To schedule a large pickup of lights, call 765-0975.

You also can deliver holiday lights to the authority’s Utica or Rome Convenience Stations for proper recycling at no charge, or dispose of them with your regular trash.

* Other types of electronic waste such as computers and televisions are also accepted at the Authority’s Utica and Rome Convenience Stations year round, at no charge.

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