The public’s efforts last year helped collect 73.6 million cards, bringing the Christmas Card Recycling Scheme’s 12 year total to 600 million cards recycled. This has enabled the Woodland Trust to plant 141,000 trees, save 12,000 tonnes of paper from going to landfill, and stop 16,000 tonnes of CO2 from going into the atmosphere – the equivalent of taking more than 5,0002, cars off the road for a year.
If everyone in the UK recycles just one Christmas card with the Woodland Trust this year, the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity will be able to plant 15,000 trees.
So imagine how many trees the charity could plant if everyone recycles all their cards in the special bins at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer, stores, throughout January. The cards are recycled which generates money, which the Woodland Trust uses to create new woods in the UK.
