Recycle Your Christmas Cards! Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling 2010

Once again The Woodland Trust will be collecting Christmas cards for recycling once the festive season is over. This Christmas the scheme runs throughout January 2010 and aims to create much needed new UK woodland.

 

 

This year, once again it will be even easier to recycle those cards. Most branches of WH Smith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer will provide collection bins for cards at stores across the country throughout January.

Comedian Clive Anderson, chairman of The Woodland Trust is supporting this year's Christmas Card Campaign. He says that "If everyone recycles just one Christmas card with the Woodland Trust this year enough funds will be generated to plant 15,000 trees. So imagine what the Trust could do if everyone recycled all their cards with it this year."

• Recycling helps to tackle climate change. Waste sent to landfill can create methane – a powerful greenhouse gas. If we all recycle just one card this Christmas this would save 1,570 tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases – the same as taking 500 cars off the road for a year.
• Recycling cards makes people think about consumer waste – particularly relevant at Christmas.
• 73.6 million cards were recycled by the scheme in 2008.
  

For detailed information on the Scheme or further help and ideas on recycling over the festive period visit the following websites.

04.01.10

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