Post Holiday Recycling

This year I made it a point to put anything recycleable in the appropriate bins for pickup.  Most wrapping paper is recycleable and so are holiday cards.  And with having 3 young children – I had a lot of cardboard.

The town I live in provides a yearly calendar to all its’ residents.  I had remembered seeing something in the past outlining what residents should do with excess recycleables from the holidays that don’t fit into the provided bins.  In the calendar I discovered the instructions on what to do.  Excess paper/cardboard can be placed in those yard waste bags and that extra pickup crews would come around the week after Christmas to pick up this excess. 

I did not notice many of my neighbors doing this – but hopefully they did recycle as much as possible.  I also know that my town has a plan to pickup christmas trees for recycling.  What are other towns doing?