Related: 12 Household Items You Should Never Recycle Most traditional wrapping paper cannot be recycled—which means an average of 2.3 million pounds of wrapping paper is tossed into the landfill ...

We have some bad news: Traditional Christmas and holiday wrapping paper is not usually recyclable. “The stuff that you mostly think of has a high clay content and low paper content, which is how ...

One thing that can cause some seasonal confusion, however, is which present-wrapping materials can be recycled. Here's a refresher, with tips from USA TODAY, on whether your wrapping paper ...

Similar to other types of printing and writing paper, gift wrap can also come from primary trees, and not all is recyclable, she said. While paper broadly is one of the most easily recyclable ...

But here's the bad news: glitter gift wrap isn't safe to recycle. In fact, any wrapping paper that's laminated, decorated with colored foil, or glittery can't be recycled and must be sent to a ...

As much a person might like to recycle the wrapping paper on gifts, it's not something the city's material recovery facility can accept. As noted in online information, wrapping paper can have ...

Paper gift wrap often is not recyclable when it has a shiny or laminated coating, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says. Some wrapping paper is not recyclable because of the materials that ...

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