The holiday season continues and with it comes an increase in trash.

Tempe officials said 25 percent more trash is generated than normal this time of year, and the city offers some advice for how to minimize waste to help the environment and community.

Top 10 holiday recycling reminders:

1. Reuse tissue paper and gift bags. Most wrapping paper (except foil paper) and cardboard tubes can be recycled.
2. Recycle all boxes from online shopping. Break them down before putting them in blue bins.
3. Items that are not recyclable: ribbon, bows, twine, light strings, and turkey and ham mesh wrappers.
4. Rinse out recyclable aluminum cans and bottles. If there is food residue in them, they are contaminated.
5. Recycle real Christmas trees. Tempe offers Christmas tree recycling through Jan. 31 at the Compost Yard. Or put trees green organics pile for collection. Donate your unwanted artificial Christmas tree.
6. Donate old bikes to Tempe’s Recycle-a-Bicycle program at Gililland Middle School. For details, visit tempe.gov/RecycleaBicycle.
7. Donate old items no longer wanted after Christmas, rather than throwing them away.
8. Make sure to recycle empty bottles and cans from holiday entertaining. Glass and aluminum can be recycled again and again.
9. Holiday cooking can produce significant grease. Residents can drop off used grease through early January at four Tempe locations. Visit www.tempe.gov/fog for more information.
10.  Never use blue recycling bins as an extra trash can. Extra trash? Call Tempe 311 at 480-350-4311 for an additional trash pickup.