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By Candice Allouch
As presents begin to pile up over the holidays, so does cardboard and plastic packaging. This year in particular, when online shopping is essential to staying healthy, you may find yourself bursting at the seams with discarded packaging material.
Fear not! Many of these boxes and bags can be recycled. Here s how you can make sure your gifts make both people
and the planet happy.
Retailers use several different packaging materials and each of these is recycled slightly differently.
Paper-padded mailers and brown packing paper, for example, can be recycled like cardboard boxes. Bubble-lined plastic envelopes are accepted by most curbside recycling programs where plastic film is also accepted.