If you're feeling a bit guilty this week after devouring a mountain of Easter chocolate, you can make yourself feel a bit better by doing something good: putting the aluminium wrappers in the recycling.

It's the Liverpool City Council in New South Wales that reminds us those colourful bits of aluminium can be recycled.

“Aluminium foil wrappers are one of the easiest items to recover through recycling," explains Liverpool Mayor Wendy Waller. “They are turned into things like aluminium cans that can show up again in our supermarkets in as little as six weeks."

“Recycled aluminium uses only five per cent of the energy used by other ways of producing our aluminium, making it much cheaper and better for the environment than mining," she adds.

All you have to do is to scrunch them up into a ball, which makes it easier for the recycling machinery, as well as possibly saving some space in your bin already filled with Easter treat wrappers.