Can You Recycle Wrapping Paper?

Regular and glossy wrapping paper is recyclable unless it has non-paper additives like metallic flakes, colored shapes, glitter and plastics. Foil, metallic and heavily laminated wrapping paper should also be thrown away instead of recycled. Please do not recycle foil, plastic coating, ribbon, bows and glitter.

Can you put wrapping paper in the recycling bin?

Before recycling, remove any sticky tape and decorations such as ribbons and bows as these cannot be recycled. Wrapping paper can only be recycled if it passes the scrunch test - simple paper wrap can be recycled but foil or glitter-decorated paper cannot and needs to go in the general waste.

How do you know if wrapping paper is recyclable?

It's very simple. All you have to do is scrunch your wrapping paper into a ball. Then, open your hand – if the paper stays in a ball, it's very likely that it's recyclable. If it unfolds and bounces back open, then it's probably not recyclable.