Recycle all your Xmas bits

Christmas trees can be taken to Mountfield Household Waste Recycling Site, where they will be transferred to local composting units, or they can be taken to other recycling centres around Rother.

Trees from the eastern section of Rother will be transferred to the Rye Bay Rangers and will be used to stabilise the dunes at Camber.

Those from the western part will be taken to a yard in Bexhill and "chipped" for composting (woodchips available on 01424 797580). Christmas trees are being accepted at Mountfield until January 12.

The glitter and other bits and pieces associated with many Christmas cards make them unsuitable for normal paper recycling into high quality newsprint.

But this year The Woodland Trust, together with Tesco and W H Smith, has arranged for collection boxes at stores throughout Rother, including Tesco Express at Battle Hill, Battle.

The majority of other post-Christmas waste can be taken to the Mountfield Household Waste Recycling Site, on London Road (A2100), between Battle and John's Cross, opposite the entrance to British Gypsum.

Aluminium foil, aerosols, bric-a-brac, car batteries, cans/tins, cardboard, computer monitors/TVs, cooking oil, engine oil, fluorescent tubes/energy saving bulbs, furniture, fridges/freezers, glass bottles/jars, green garden waste, hardcore/rubble, household batteries, metal items, mobile phones, newspapers/magazines/junk mail/white telephone directories, plastic bottles, soil and textiles/shoes can all be recycled at Mountfield.

The Mountfield Household Waste Recycling Site is open from Monday to Saturday 8am-4pm and Sunday 9am-4pm.

There are also recycling points across the district for various other waste items.