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Recycle Christmas cards and help the environment

  • 7 Jan 2009

Theresa May is supporting the Woodland Trust’s Christmas Card Recycling Scheme. Each year the Trust collects cards, all of which are taken to paper mills where they are recycled into brand new paper products, with money raised helping the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity plant thousands of trees.

Last year, the public recycled an impressive total of 73.6 million Christmas cards which enabled the Woodland Trust to plant 17,000 trees. If everyone recycles just one Christmas card this year it will raise enough funds to plant a further 15,000 trees.

Theresa will be recycling her own Christmas cards on Thursday 8th January when she visits the Maidenhead branch of Marks & Spencer.

Commenting, Theresa said, “Cards are an important part of our Christmas tradition but without proper recycling they can result in a lot of waste paper. That’s why I strongly support the Woodland Trust’s recycling scheme, which ensures that Christmas cards are recycled and the money raised put into planting new trees. I will be recycling my Christmas cards and I hope all local residents will join me.”