Recycle for a Green Christmas

Writing by Paul on Tuesday 18 December 2007

Support Christmas Recycling

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Payplan and its clients recognise that Christmas is a difficult time financially, especially for those in debt management plans or IVAs who have to budget carefully. However, although many of us spend extra money during the festive season that stretches our bank accounts and increases our debts, this also has other consequences; our environment suffers.

The UK alone will create an estimated 736,571 extra tonnes of waste and rubbish this Christmas and understanding the extra pressure that is placed on our waste and recycling services during the festive season should encourage us all to think twice about how we dispose of our unwanted Christmas presents, gifts, trees and cards.

Christmas Waste

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According to statistics from recent years, Britons send over 1 billion Christmas cards every year and buy 6 million Christmas trees of which only 1 in 6 are recycled - an extra 6000 tonnes of rubbish is dumped as a result.

I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas

Here are some websites that will help you to recycle your Christmas trees and Christmas cards responsibly, as well as providing recycling tips and advice on local recycling services:

www.recyclenow.com
www.recycle-more.co.uk

Remember, if you’ve chosen to use or buy an artificial Christmas tree then this should last you several years if cared for. Similarly, there are many ways to send Christmas ecards via the internet, which is ideal for those of us who are disorganised and have missed the last Christmas post as well as helping you towards a ‘greener’ Christmas.

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