While you’re tucking into your Easter eggs this weekend, don’t forget to recycle your packaging.
An estimated 80 million chocolate eggs are bought in the UK each year – and the majority of these eggs come packaged in an excessive amount of cardboard and plastic. To help prevent all this from going to landfill, Conwy County Borough Council has come up with some top tips for keeping your Easter waste to a minimum.
Alun Jones, Recycling Education Officer for Conwy County Borough Council, said: “Shoppers have been complaining for years about the amount of packaging that traditionally comes with Easter eggs, and the supermarkets have finally started to listen. If you do receive an Easter egg this weekend in a big box, please make sure to recycle the packaging that comes with it. The cardboard goes in your green box and the plastic casing goes into your white bag. Alternately, you can take your waste packaging to your local recycling bank or communal recycling bins.
“In Conwy, you can recycle much more than just chocolate egg boxes. If you’re cooking a big Easter lunch, all your food waste, including the bone from your leg of lamb, can be recycled with your weekly collection service. And if you have a celebratory bottle of wine with your meal, we’ll collect that too from your green box.”
For further information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle in Conwy, visit www.conwy.gov.uk/recycling
