Retailers Show Support for Christmas Card Recycling

According to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), more than one billion Christmas cards or a total of 17 per UK resident end up in the rubbish pile each holiday season.

For fourteen years, the Woodland Trust and Recycle Now ran a campaign to reduce carbon emissions by encouraging recipients to recycle Xmas cards. In 2007 alone, 93 million cards were recycled thanks to the agencies’ collective efforts. That year the campaign raised £100,000, resulting in 22,000 trees planted.

Unfortunately, the campaign came to an end in January 2011, due to a lack of participation and funding. This holiday season, however, consumers can still recycle Xmas cards quite easily, thanks to retailers like Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s.

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Your favorite recycle center. During the holidays tons of wrapping paper will find its way into everyones trash. The curb side will be filled with colorful wrappings. Once the presents are revealed Xmas wrapping paper looses its appeal. Over 4 million tons of this pretty colored paper will fill the garbage dumps of cities all over. Recycling xmas wrapping paper will save much needed space in landfills for other materials.

 Send your Xmas wrapping to paper recycling facilities. This wrapping will be used to make new materials. Manufacturers use new boxes, printing paper and paper resources and are always in need of lower costing recycled paper products. Collecting and taking paper to a recycling center will save thousands of trees and create more bags and writing material that can be reused over and over. Paper is listed in sections as are many recyclable materials, but wrapping paper is one of Continue Reading →

Most electronic devices require some sort of battery, ranging from your laptop computer to a digital camera and mobile phone. Of course, over time these batteries do fail, requiring you to replace the battery, if you want to continue using the equipment. However, the batteries have dangerous components in them, that can polite the local water supply, should you just toss the batteries into the trash. As the batteries begin to deteriorate and break down, the interior contents leak out, and when it rains, the dangerous liquid is washed down into the local water source. To prevent this from ever occurring, you need to recycle batteries once the life time is up. Thankfully, there are several different locations available for recycling batteries, none of Continue Reading →