8 sustainable ways to reuse Christmas waste in your backyard – instead of throwing it out

Multi Level wooden planter boxes filled with vegetables and flowers. .

Christmas is over, and undoubtedly you've indulged (as you should) in generous gift-giving, lavish decorating, and plenty of feasting. But now it's all over, you might have a prickly conscience about how much waste has been generated.

It's a feeling we've all experienced, the guilt of trying to flatten cardboard and compact wrapping paper down, to fit into our garbage cans and recycling.