(CTV News, Dec 14/16)  When Christmas is finally here and the gifts are unwrapped, many families are left with the task of clean up.

Many residents in Regina are wondering what exactly to toss in the waste and what to recycle. The City of Regina set the record straight Wednesday.

Residents can recycle wrapping paper this holiday season, but there are many exceptions.

Shiny foil or metallic gift wrap, wrapping paper with laminates or shiny adhesives that bind glitter to the paper, glossy gift bags and gift bags with rope handles cannot be recycled.

“Plain paper that can easily be ripped can go inside the recycling cart,” said Lisa Legault, the city’s director of solid waste.

“We have allowed wrapping paper in our recycling program since the beginning, and what we found over the years is that more and more unrecyclable content has been going into the recycling bin.”

Garland, ribbons, bows, electrical Christmas string or light bulbs and packing material such as tape, plastic wrap from gift baskets, Styrofoam and bubble wrap is also not accepted.

The city also stresses before recycling your wrapping paper, residents must remove any kind of tape or labeled stickers attached to the wrapping paper.

They city also suggests environmental options like reusable gift wrap like cloth bags or scarves and other recyclable material like comic books or plain brown paper or newspaper.

More details for residents in a City of Regina PSA.