This is always a busy time of year, but please don’t forget to recycle as much as you can.

This is always a busy time of year, but please don’t forget to recycle as much as you can.

Put in Your Recycling Bins: Greetings cards and envelopes Cardboard --- this includes all the boxes your presents came in but please remove any plastic packaging. Cans and tins --- empty food tins and drink cans. Plastic bottles --- all plastic bottles including fizzy drinks and cider bottles, as well as milk, shampoo, cleaning and washing-up liquid bottles. Newspapers and magazines --- don't forget to recycle the TV listings, yesterday’s newspapers.

Christmas trees can be recycled in your fortnightly Garden Waste Collection Service as long as they are small trees chopped into pieces no bigger than 3 inches or 75mm in diameter. For disposal of larger trees please take these to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centers. Please note the Garden Waste Collection Service is suspended between 26th December and 6th January.

Glass bottles and jars --- empty wine bottles can be taken to the bottle bank together with beer bottles and pickle （泡菜）jars. Clothes and shoes --- don't throw your old clothes away, and take them to your local clothing recycling bank.

Please Do NOT Place in Your Recycling Bin: Gift wrap --- Christmas gift wrapping does not contain much paper. It is often layered with foil（箔纸）and plastic which can’t be recycled. Plastic carrier bags --- please do not put your recyclables in these as it makes it difficult to sort the contents. Drinks cartons --- owing to the costs and environmental impacts associated with transporting these, it is more cost-effective to recycle them right here. Plastic Packaging--- Although plastic packaging may have symbols which suggest it can be recycled, it is made of different types of plastic and there are no cost-effective ways to recycle it at present.

21. What should we do before putting the cardboard into recycling bins?
A. Taking out the gifts. B. Separating it from plastic packages.
C. Emptying the packages. D. Collecting the boxes.