{"id":202642,"date":"2025-12-26T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202642\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:04:07","slug":"christmas-recycling-tips-issued-for-devon-and-cornwall-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202642\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas recycling tips issued for Devon and Cornwall households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz Jarvis, a senior waste manager at Devon County Council, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> wrapping paper and Christmas cards could usually be recycled if they were not covered in plastic or glitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Jarvis added food was a &#8220;number one nemesis&#8221; in terms of waste, with a 2022 analysis showing roughly a third of black bin waste as food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you think you&#8217;ve bought something you don&#8217;t really need, then don&#8217;t forget that it can most likely be frozen and used another day,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A reminder has been issued by both councils about not putting old batteries in rubbish bins as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c620g3l93gvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they can cause fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Take them to a supermarket or your local household waste and recycling centre for recycling,&#8221; Cornwall Council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Jarvis added some electrical items could be taken to repair cafes &#8211; where people can take items to be fixed &#8211; to get a new lease of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liz Jarvis, a senior waste manager at Devon County Council, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service wrapping paper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-202642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}