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Crossgates Shopping Centre offers new Christmas card recycling scheme
Crossgates Shopping Centre is preparing to offer a valuable service which will enable people to offload their Christmas cards following the festive season as ecologically as possible.
From Thursday, December 27 until January 31, 2008, the Centre will be running a Christmas card recycling scheme in the heart of the Mall.
Throughout the post-Christmas period, shoppers, tand visitors will be able to post their Christmas cards into specially-designed re-cycling post boxes up and down the Mall.
The cards will then be collected at regular intervals for environmentally-friendly recycling in co-ordination with the Woodland Trust.
"We're very pleased to be able to offer this scheme as a way for local community to dispose of their cards ecologically," said Stephen Seymour, manager of Crossgates Shopping Centre.
"Giving back to the environment is very important to the Centre, and we're glad to be able to provide this scheme to help make a positive contribution to tackling climate change."
All cards deposited in the recycling boxes over the coming month will go towards the Woodland Trust's national recycling scheme, helping to generate considerable revenue for the charity, responsible for carrying out essential woodland conservation work and tree planting across the UK.
In a similar scheme last winter, 93 million cards were collected across the UK for recycling, enough to enable the Woodland Trust to plant 22,000 new trees, or a forest the size of 44 football pitches.
Recycling the cards also saved 2,400 tonnes of C02 – the same impact as taking over 700 cars of the road or avoiding 100 flights around the globe.
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