Recycling Christmas Cards
One of the nicest things about Christmas is receiving cards from your friends and family; however this year don’t throw your Christmas cards away once the festive season is over. Make a resolution to recycle them and get your New Year off to a greener start.
Brindleyplace has set up a recycling scheme, in association with Smurfit Kappa packaging group. Visitors and employees of Brindleyplace are encouraged to bring their Christmas cards into the receptions of buildings Three, Four and Nine, from 31 December – 31 January 2008, where they will be taken away for recycling.
If you are a company based within Brindleyplace you may want to collect your employees Christmas cards and then drop them all off to one of the reception points together.
By throwing your Christmas cards away, they will go to landfill and while rotting will produce methane gas (20 times more potent than Carbon Dioxide). As global warming is becoming far more accepted as a reality, it is important that methane and carbon dioxide emissions are lessened to reduce the effects.
Q) What will happen to the cards?
A) We will box the Christmas Cards together, they will then be shredded, made into bales and recycled back into cardboard boxes!
If you have any queries about the scheme, please contact the green team at Brindleyplace on 0121 643 6866 or email thegreenteam@brindleyplace.com.
For more recycling ideas, log on to www.recyclenow.com