Gifts that keep on giving

Unless you want to bring bad luck to your home (or office), you have until midnight tomorrow to take down all those Christmas decorations.

But these days it's not good enough just to get rid of all that festive tat on 12th night.

You must also recycle it. Yes, even if you have made paper chains out of old magazines that were printed on recycled paper in the first place, it just won't do to bin them.

If the prospect of such virtuous waste management seems daunting, help is at hand. Whether it's trees, cards, decorations, or even food there is plenty of advice about where they can be put for reuse.

Even the supermarkets are offering to help, for example here and here.

It's not just decorations that can be recycled. If you want to get rid of unwanted Christmas presents, read on - a loving new home can be found for those unloved gifts.