If your living room floor is still covered in wrapping paper, empty boxes, gift tags and bows then you might be wondering about recycling.

You could dig them out the bin bags of course but it's not always obvious if you can stop them going to landfill.

Chances are Christmas cards and wrapping paper can go in the recycling as long as they are not covered in glitter and materials other than paper or card, such as foil, plastic and glass.

If they are, then they’ll have to go in your normal black bin.

You will also need to make sure you remove ribbons, bows and foil gift tags, as these cannot be recycled, reports the DT.

According to Recycle Now, the national recycling campaign for England, the materials that go into making some wrapping paper result in it not always being accepted for recycling.

This is because wrapping paper is often dyed, laminated and/or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver-coloured shapes, glitter, plastics, which cannot be recycled.

It advises to give your wrapping paper the scrunch test to see if it can be recycled.

Basically, if the paper stays scrunched up then it can be put in your recycling bin.

Cardboard boxes can be recycled but the advice is to squash them down so they don't take up as much room in your recycling bin.