Your Christmas trash sorting guide for P.E.I., 2021 version
CBC
So you've opened the presents and your living room is a sea of wrapping paper, ribbons and cardboard.
Now what?
Island Waste Management hopes you will resist the temptation to throw it all together and drop it at the curb.
After all, nobody likes to see that orange rejection sticker on their bins or blue bags!
Island Waste's Heather Myers checked our garbage list twice for accuracy. Here's what to do with some common Christmas items.
It's compost unless it has plastic or foil on it. Then it's waste.
Greeting cards are compost unless they have plastic, foil, ribbons, or other waste items on the cards, in which case the entire card goes in the waste.
If the greeting card has a battery, remove the battery and recycle it at a recycling collection location.
If they're shiny with a plastic coating, they're waste.
But, Myers said: "If you have a gift bag that is brown paper with brown paper handles, that can be recycled so it can go with your corrugated cardboard or blue bag number one."
This is recyclable, and can go with corrugated cardboard or in a blue bag.
Waste, waste and waste.
Compost, even if it has traces of glitter.
"We will accept that small amount of contamination on it," Myers said.