 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. It's the night before Christmas and stockings are hung by the chimney with care, but will soon be greeted by a mile strum of torn packaging and wrapping paper filling the air. So assuming your kids enjoy playing with the toys they're given more than the box that they came in, your garbage cart and the two extra bags Fort Worth will pick up after the holidays probably won't cut it, unless you're cycled. In green over the holiday will keep you from seeing red when you get to the big clean-up. So we're running down the items you might not think of to help you waste less and recycle more. And we called on Fort Worth's resident recycling guru, Kim Moat, to help us out. First up, the tough customers, wrapping paper and greeting cards. Well, holiday wrapping papers can be problematic. So we encourage people to recycle the cardboard tube for the recycling and that works out very well, but for the paper, it has metallic components to it that make it difficult to recycle. Same thing with gift cards. With FedEx foil lining, please don't recycle it, but if it's just paper, let's go ahead and recycle it. It makes sense to do it that way. Next up, the packaging your gifts come in. For example, this cardboard box that's wrapped up has a soccer ball inside of it. Once you remove the soccer ball, you've got a cardboard box, just like any other cardboard you have throughout the year, fold it up, put it in your recycle bin and it's ready to recycle. Rigid plastic containers that are wrapped around a product. When you cut that out, I know very difficult to do, but remove the product and the rigid plastic in the recycle. Getting away from the toys, let's talk about the recyclables from your holiday meal. From the kitchen, there's an awful lot of things we do during the holiday period. Things such as eggnog, such as extra cream, things like that. The cartons can be rinsed out and tossed in the recycling bin. One of my holiday favorites is the cranberry sauce in the can with the ridges. But when you pull the canberry sauce out, recycle the can. Also cookies sometimes come in metal containers, also in plastic containers. They're generally recyclable for the rigid plastic, metal containers, when you're consuming the cookies. Put them in the recycle bin unless you intend to reuse them. Recycling some of the items we discussed here will help green your Christmas. But be sure to take a minute to look at what you're throwing away and see if there are any recyclables you might have missed. You can find a list of items accepted in Fort Worth's curbside recycling program at fortworthtexas.gov slash solid waste. We wrap up the year next week, but until then, Merry Christmas from the Fort Report and Fort Worth Television.