From mountains of Christmas cards to Christmas trees that have served their purpose, there are ways to recycle your waste this Christmas.
There appears to be much focus this year on ensuring that wood use over the festive period becomes more sustainable in a bid to help the environment over a very demanding time on the natural resource. For example, different sources are encouraging those who buy a natural tree to pot it, and then find a place in your garden to replant it after Christmas. This means the tree can be used again the next year.
In addition, thanks to a partnership between the Woodland Trust and Marks and Spencer, you can recycle all of your Christmas cards. For the past 14 years, the Woodland Trust has recycled 700 million old Christmas cards and the money raised has helped the Trust to plant over 200,000 trees.
M&S stores around the country will be continuing to help the good work the Woodland Trust started by collecting your Christmas cards once the festive period is over. They aim to collect 9 million cards by 31 January 2012, and the Woodland Trust have pledged that for every 1,000 cards collected, a new tree will be planted. If M&S reach their target, 9,000 trees will be planted!
To make the process even more interactive, you can click the following link http://cedr.ec/1r to visit the M&S website and vote where in the country you would like more trees to be planted.
