PEOPLE in Darlington are being encouraged to recycle Christmas items and help the environment.
The borough council has doubled its workforce and brought in extra wagons to ensure recycling collections continue over the festive period.
Plain Christmas cards can be left out for collection in residents' blue recycling bags, while glass bottles, cans and empty aerosol cans can be left in residents' green recycling boxes.
The council is also recycling Christmas trees, without any decorations, which can be dropped off at collection points around the borough between Wednesday, January 5, and Friday, January 14.
Christmas trees can be dropped off for recycling at the Bedford Street entrance to South Park; Homebase on Darlington Retail Park; the council nursery in Salutation Road; North Park; B&Q in Whessoe Road; Prior Street entrance in Sugar Hill Park; the Water Park in Middleton St George; Hurworth Grange Community Centre; the Whessoe Road tip; Eastbourne Park; Gardeners Barn in Albert Road; Rockwell Pastures; and the village hall car park in Heighington.
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