Why not take your Christmas cards to the special recycling bins in Marks & Spencer, WH Smith and TK Maxx and the money raised will help the woodland conservation charity to plant 12,000 new native trees during 2010 – many by children.
Donors can even choose which part of the country they want trees to be planted by going onto the Woodland Trust web site and pledging to recycle. www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/cards
The Trust’s campaign is now going into its 13th year. In that time it has recycled 659m cards – 59m last year alone – and planted 155,000 trees across the UK.
The Trust says: “Planting a tree is the beginning of a new cycle, and a wonderful, important and very symbolic thing for anyone to do, especially children. Imagine how many children will be able to plant tiny oaks, ash and hazel trees that will stay there for ever, just from the simple act of us taking time to recycle our cards.”
