The CORRECT way to recycle your Easter Egg wrappings - as some do it all wrong

While the great joy of Easter for many is piling into lots and lots of chocolate Easter eggs, they undoubtedly come with a plethora of wrappings to deal with afterwards.

But many do not realise there's a particular way you need to divide up your Easter wrappings to ensure they can be recycled properly by your local council.

The cardboard boxes that many Easter Eggs are presented in are fairly easy to break down and put into your recycling. But when it comes to the foil wrappings on many Easter eggs, it has to be done in a particular way or it won't get recycled.

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Luckily, Recycle for Greater Manchester have put out information this weekend showing the CORRECT way we should all be doing it. And it's particularly important if you have a lot of foil-wrapped mini chocolate eggs.

It has blown the minds of some people who had no idea that this is the way you're supposed to be doing it.

The full post from Recycle for Greater Manchester says: "You can’t recycle foil from small Easter eggs…but you can if you add it to bigger pieces of foil."

It went on to show in picture form how you need to do it properly.

It said: "Wrap your smaller bits of foil in a larger piece and scrunch into the size of a tennis ball. This stops the smaller bits of foil from falling into the glass recycling and makes sure all of it is recycled together."

Many who have seen the Facebook post have offered their own tips to help with the process too.

Yvonne Saxon said: "Or you can use an aluminium drinks can to save all your little bits of foil and milk bottle tops and so they all get recycled together with the can. If you don’t use drinks