Clydebank residents are being reminded to recycle during the festive period.

Cards, packaging, food and most wrapping paper can be recycled, as well as real Christmas trees – once the festivities are over.

To check if your wrapping paper is recyclable give it the “scrunch test” – if it stays crumpled it can go into the paper and cardboard recycling container.

But any wrapping paper which “springs back” after being scrunched up is going to be plastic-based and therefore cannot be recycled.

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Residents can bring their real (not artificial) Christmas trees to any of the two household waste recycling centres at Dalmoak, Renton, and Ferry Road, Old Kilpatrick.

You can also leave them next to your brown bin (not inside it) for a kerbside collection, but remember to remove any decorations, cut your tree in half if it is bigger than the bin, and put the brown bin out next to the tree, even if it is empty, so the crews know to stop.

Christmas food can also be recycled; anything from vegetable peelings to turkey bones can be put into brown bins for regular collection.