Recycle Your Christmas Cards!

Once again The Woodland Trust will be collecting Christmas cards for recycling once the festive season is over. This Christmas the scheme runs from 2nd - 31st January 2009 and aims to create much needed new UK woodland.

This year, 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 and Samia Smith (Coronation Street’s Maria Sutherland) are supporting this year's Christmas Card Campaign.

• Recycling cards through the scheme enables the Woodland Trust to plant trees! If everyone recycles just one Christmas card at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx or Marks & Spencer stores throughout January, the Woodland Trust will be able to plant 15,000 trees to create UK woodland.
• 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 http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/take-part/recycle/cards/Pages/christmas.aspx or www.recyclenow.com.

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