January 9, 2008
JOHN HEALEY MP RECYCLES HIS CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR CHARITY
Store manager Michael Cooke helping John Healey MP recycle his cards at Tesco. John Healey MP helped the Woodland Trust this morning by recycling his Christmas cards at Tesco Extra, Wath-upon-Dearne.
Cards are recycled throughout January in bins at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer.
All of the cards collected during the campaign are recycled into new paper products, with money raised helping the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity plant thousands of trees.
Mr Healey said: “It is so easy to do your bit for the environment – you can recycle your cards when you do your weekly shop.
“If everyone recycled just one card the Woodland Trust would be able to plant 15,000 trees.”
Store manager Michael Cooke said the scheme was proving more popular than ever this year and the recycling bin was having to be emptied two or three times a day.
From Wath the cards are taken to Tesco’s recycling centre in Doncaster and then handed over to the charity.
Last year 73.6 million cards were recycled which enabled the Woodland Trust to plant 17,000 trees in some of its 1,000 UK woods.
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.