如何妥善處理包裝紙？

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As the pile of wrapping paper grows in the storage room， a question inevitably arises： What do we do with all this？ Does it all have to go straight into the trash can？ Can wrapping paper be recycled？ Does it matter that it has tape on it？

It's tempting to assume the answer to the recycling question is in the name itself： It's wrapping paper， after all. Surely it can join the rest of your cardboard boxes in the recycling bin. As you may have guessed，however， it's a bit more complicated than that.

Paper vs "Paper"

The truth is， a lot of wrapping “paper" on the market isn't actually paper at all. Metallic， glittery， and see-through papers are all at least partially plastic， meaning they can't be remade into other paper products. Even some wrapping paper that is pure paper isn't worth putting in the bin. Super thin wrapping paper， for example， doesn't contain enough of the quality fibers extracted during the recycling process.

隨著儲(chǔ)物室的包裝紙?jiān)絹?lái)越多，不可避免地出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)問(wèn)題：我們?cè)撛趺刺幚磉@些東西？全部都要直接扔進(jìn)垃圾桶嗎？包裝紙可以回收嗎？上面的膠帶影響回收嗎？

人們很容易認(rèn)為，回收問(wèn)題的答案就在其名字本身：畢竟，它是包裝紙。（剩余1790字）