12 Days of HOTBIN Composting Christmas

From crackers and party poppers to leftover food and paper plates. What can you compost once your party guests have gone home?

So much food is wasted during Christmas, however this can easily be diverted from landfill by recycling it into compost.

Didn't get around to roasting those chestnuts on an open fire? These can go in the HOTBIN along with multitude of other roasting delights.

Pudding on Christmas day, a slice of cake or mince pies with a cup of tea, chocolates or a slice of Panettone, can these sweet treats be composted? HOTBIN explains.

Wreaths are made from a multitude of different materials. Evergreen, pine cones, cinnamon sticks, berries. But what can be composted and what can't?

Christmas cards needn't get binned this year, see if you can add them to your HOTBIN.

With 8,000 tonnes (equivalent to 50,000 trees) of wrapping paper alone used each year and 227,000 miles binned you can see why we are being encouraged to recycle/reuse. In addition, as many major companies are already sourcing sustainable paper as well as other materials, this will only continue to help reduce the impact on our planet.

A vast array of pet waste can be composted alongisde Christmas waste from pet stockings and much more.

HOTBIN is never one for waste so when you've done with Santa's mince pie and Rudolf's carrot, then chop them up and add them to the HOTBIN. Along with other waste...