Recycle Your Christmas Cards

Did you know that households will have produced over three quarters of a million tonnes of EXTRA waste over the Christmas and New Year festivities?  With all of this extra waste heading to our landfill sites, it is important for us to recycle as much as possible.

 

Each year the Woodlands Trust teams up with Recycle Now to launch a Christmas card recycling campaign.  This year with your help, the scheme is hoping to make 2008 it’s most successful year yet and collect 100 million cards to raise funds to plant 24,000 trees.

 

Recycling Christmas cards is the simplest way you can cut down your festive waste and make a positive contribution to tackling climate change. And by recycling your cards through the Woodland Trust Recycling Scheme, you will also help generate revenue for the charity, which carries out essential woodland conservation work and tree planting across the UK.

Where can I recycle my cards?

Special Christmas card recycling bins will be in place across UK mainland throughout January at selected retail outlets:

 

·   WHSmith

·   Tesco

·   TK Maxx

·   Marks & Spencer

Thanks to your help last year, 93 million cards were collected. That was enough to enable the Woodland Trust to plant 22,000 tress – or a forest the size of 44 football pitches.

Recycling 93 million cards last year saved 2,400 tonnes of C02; that’s the same impact as taking over 700 cars of the road or avoiding 100 flights around the globe.

 

TV soap star Emily Symons – Emmerdale’s Louise Appleton – is supporting this year’s Campaign. She says:

 

“I am delighted to be part of the Woodland Trust and Recycle Now’s successful and worthwhile campaign. I am a keen recycler myself and will be taking all of my Christmas cards this year to participating stores. It’s a great way for people to get their New Year off to a ‘greener’ start and get into the recycling habit.” 

 

For more information visit the Recycle Now web site at www.recyclenow.com