Top politician fronts greeting card recycling campaign
Leading politician Theresa May has launched a campaign to recycle greeting cards.
The Home Secretary, Minister for Women and Equalities and MP for Maidenhead, kick started the proceedings when she recycled her own Christmas cards last week in her local constituency branch of Marks & Spencer.
Theresa is supporting the Woodland Trust’s Christmas Card Recycling Scheme. The trust collects cards each year, which are then 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, the public recycled a total of 73.6 million Christmas cards which enabled the Woodland Trust to plant 17,000 trees. If everyone recycles just one Christmas card this year it will raise enough funds to plant a further 15,000 trees.
Commenting, Theresa said, “Cards are an important part of our Christmas tradition but without proper recycling they can result in a lot of waste paper. That’s why I strongly support the Woodland Trust’s recycling scheme, which ensures that Christmas cards are recycled and the money raised put into planting new trees. I will be recycling my Christmas cards and I hope all local residents will join me.”
Pictured right: MP Theresa May judging a Christmas card competition with Stephen Harron of the Holiday Inn, Maidenhead.
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