The City of Regina is encouraging you to think green when cleaning up Christmas festivities.

The city said there are plenty of things that can be recycled, rather than thrown into the trash.

City’s Janet Aird said when it comes to wrapping paper, it depends on the type. “If it’s just pain paper, wrapping paper can go in your recycling cart. If it has glitter on it, bows, metallic in anyway, or that plastic stuff that you can’t rip, that isn’t recyclable.”

Aird added that tissue paper, gift bags and ribbon also can’t go into the recycling, but could potentially get reused. She said there is a way to avoided putting things in the garbage by using reusable material. “When people are wrapping their presents, they can think about maybe using a dish towels, or scarves, or any other type of reusable item.”

Aird said if non-recyclable material ends up in the wrong bin, it will be sorted out. “But we encourage people not to put them in because it does put pressure and the processing facility. They can get tangles in the belts that move the material along the sorting line.”

If you aren’t sure what materials you can recycle, you can click here.