Recycle Now launches Christmas Recycling Campaign

Actress Joanna Lumley has today launched a nationwide recycling campaign to highlight the massive amount of extra waste generated during the festive season, and to encourage households to take action to recycle this waste. 

The campaign is being run by Recycle Now, and will encourage householders to recycle their old Christmas trees, compost their vegetable peelings and drop off recyclables at supermarkets and recycling centres.  Fridey Cordingley, head of Recycle Now, said:

“The amount of extra rubbish produced over Christmas is staggering but there are lots of different ways to help cut this down. Recycling is an easy way to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and help tackle climate change. The extra waste we create at Christmas produces 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 - the same as producing enough energy as that required to enable all the households in Leeds and Doncaster to watch TV for a year.”

The Recycle Now campaign will also encourage people to take part in the Woodland Trust’s annual Christmas card recycling campaign, which aims to recycle over 100 million christmas cards.  Under the Woodland Trust’s Christmas card scheme, old christmas cards will be collected at stores of Tesco, Marks and Spencer, WH Smith, and TK Maxx before being sent for recycling.