That big pile of candy you or your kids now own? It can gratify - and perhaps decay - your sweet tooth and go straight to your hips. Or it can be sent abroad to the troops.

It’s the Monday after Halloween. Chances are, there’s already a big pile of candy lurking at your office — or small bowls filled with colourful treats, lots and lots of them.

And along with that sugar rush, we’ll amass quite a pile of candy wrappers, all of which will be dumped in the trash. But they’re made of plastic—so why can’t we recycle them?