Recycle Your Christmas Cards!

Once again The Woodland Trust and Recycle Now have teamed up to collect Christmas cards for recycling once the festive season is over. This year the scheme hopes to raise funds to plant 24,000 trees by collecting 100 million cards.

Thanks to the public’s support last year, 93 million cards were collected. That’s enough to enable the charity to plant 22,000 trees – or a forest the size of 44 football pitches!

Recycling Christmas cards is a simple way everyone can cut down their festive waste and make a positive contribution to tackling climate change. Recycling 93 million cards last year saved 2,400 tonnes of CO2; that’s the same impact as taking over 700 cars off the road or avoiding over 100 flights around the globe.

This year, it will be even easier to recycle those cards. WH Smith, Tesco, TK Maxx and – new this year - Marks & Spencer will provide collection bins for cards at stores across the country throughout January.

TV soap star Emily Symons – Emmerdale’s Louise Appleton - is supporting this year's Christmas Card 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 detailed information on the Scheme or further help and ideas on recycling over the festive period visit www.recyclenow.com or www.woodland-trust.org.uk/cards

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