From trees and wrapping paper to cards and food leftovers, councils have offered advice on how to dispose of festive waste ...

Household waste increases by 25% between Thanksgiving and New Years. Rules vary by municipality on what you can recycle and what needs to go into the trash.

Flintshire Council also warns that not all Christmas cards can be recycled. A spokesperson said: "If the card has glitter, ...

In most cases, Christmas decorations, including artificial trees, ornaments and string lights, can be recycled.

Placing items that can't be recycled in recycling bins can result in fines. These fines can vary depending on where you live, ...

Real Christmas trees (non-artificial) can be chopped up into pieces and placed in your garden waste bins, or can be taken to any of the three recycling centres in Wrexham. Old/faulty Christmas lights ...

Turn used gift wrap into something crafty, enliven boring storage, or use it as packing material. Here's how get more use out of your wrapping paper.

That’s the thinking behind the next installment of Rock Music Menu’s Holiday Gift Guide, and the first onedesigned ...

Dogs who’ve been cooped up in the city-run Animal Services shelter got some festive goodies on Christmas Eve from a group of ...

Barrio Power, a grassroots collective, found immigrant families were stressed about the holidays. So, they called out to the ...

BBC Morning Live presenter Jacqui Joseph has urged people to carry out a simple scrunch test on wrapping paper to check if it ...

Wrapping is rooted in Asian tradition. According to Anthropology Magazine Sapiens, in ancient China some 2,000 years ago, paper was used to protect precious materials and store tea leaves and ...