Can you recycle?
Sweet wrappers should go in your rubbish bin. Although they’re shiny and look like foil, they’re actually made out of metallised plastic film, a material which can’t be recycled yet.
![Empty chocolate bar wrappers](https://londonrecycles.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Chocolate-bar-wrapper-1-1024x585.jpg)
The scrunch test
An easy way to find out if something is made from foil or metallised plastic film is to do the scrunch test. Simply scrunch the item – if it stays scrunched up, it’s foil and can be recycled; if it springs back it’s probably metallised plastic film and not recyclable.