Festive cardboard recycling trial

Skips have been installed next to recycling banks in the Cotswolds to allow people to recycle gift packaging over the Christmas holiday period.

Cardboard can be taken to the Old Station car park, Cirencester and the Maugersbury Road car park, in Stow-on-the-Wold.

In Cirencester, people can take real Christmas trees to be recycled between 27 December and 14 January.

Trees should be taken to Dobbies Garden Centre at Siddington for composting.

"Residents who can't make it to the garden centre can take their real trees to the Household Recycling Centre at Fosse Cross or chop them into sections and put them in their green garden waste bins," said Councillor Mark Tufnell.

"We want to remind people that a great deal of their Christmas waste can be recycled, from trees and cards to plastic, glass and cans."