MP recycles Christmas cards

Reporter: Kirsty Rigg
Date online: 12 January 2009

Paul Rowen MP is helping the Woodland Trust create new woods by recycling their Christmas cards at Tesco Express on Whitworth Road. Paul was joined by staff member Carol Sutcliffe at the store, where he brought hundreds of his cards for recycling.

Cards are recycled, throughout January, in bins at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer.

All of the cards collected during the campaign 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 73.6 million cards were recycled which enabled the Woodland Trust plant 17,000 trees in some of its 1,000 UK woods.

Paul Rowen MP said, “This is an excellent scheme and I was very pleased to support it by bringing my own cards. It’s amazing to think that by recycling our Christmas Cards we can make such a positive difference. Carol informed me that dozens of local people have taken their cards in and I am encouraging more people to do the same”.

Since the scheme was founded 12 years ago more than 600 million cards have been recycled which has enabled the charity to plant 140,000 trees.

For more information log onto www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/cards