Christmas Waste

Christmas waste - 6 Obscene facts you didn't know! More than 8,000 tonnes of wrapping paper Some Festive Tips To Help You will be used on Christmas presents, using Go Green This Christmas the equivalent of approximately 50,000 trees. Last Christmas, DEFRA estimated that 83 square km of wrapping paper ended up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an CHRISTMAS CARDS area larger than Guernsey. Instead of sending traditional Christmas cards, why not send Christmas e-card to friends colleagues and donate the Season money you would have spent to charity. Store your Greetings Christmas cards with your decorations so you can reuse them again next year as gift bags. Help charities raise 50000 money by taking your cards to one of those recycling shops that collects them. Companies like Marks and Spencer and TREES TK Maax were among many companies involved last year. If your cards do not have glitter or bows, etc. you can put them in your blue recycling box. 8000 Tonnes of Wrapping Paper WRAPPING PAPER When buying wrapping paper, make sure you buy and use Every year we throw away 1 billion 100% recycled wrapping paper or brown Eco friendly Christmas cards. That's 17 for recycled paper. Be creative with your wrapping paper once every man woman and child in the the festive period is over or recycle it by putting it in your UK. blue recycling box along with your normal paper waste. Use alternative materials to wrap your presents. Ideas for abstract wrapping can be found on the Book Art website. 1,500 tonnes of used tree lights that's FOOD equivalent to 1,339,285 iPhone 5s. Make the most of your Christmas leftover by making sandwiches, salad and pies, soups and curries. Only buy what you need, plan ahead and make a shopping list. Avoid buying packaged and over stuffed fruits and vegetables. Try to buy them loose where possible. To make fruits, %3D 1339285 iPhone 5s vegetables and nuts last longer, keep them in salad drawer of the fridge. 1500 Tonnes of tree lights CANS Buy products with little or no packaging. Buy the largest size you can find to reduce the amount of 250 tonnes of Christmas trees are Aluminium wasted. Clean the cans and flatten them before thrown away each year - the placing them in your recycling box. equivalent of 250 London buses. CHRISTMAS TREE Buy reusable artificial trees. Recycle your real Christmas tree at your councils designated recycling centre or call the local council contractor to come and collect it. 250 tonnes of christmas trees 250 London buses PLASTIC 13,350 tonnes of glass is thrown out in All plastic containers with Numbers 1 and 2 inside a triangle 17 the UK during the festive season. should be recycled. Get rid of left overs by rinsing them Recycling them would have the save the before placing them inside their designated recycling boxes. Squash them if you can to save recycling space before putting CO2 equivalent of taking 1,300 cars off them in their recycling box. the road for a year. Recycling glass LIGHTS would have the save the CO2 Equivalent Store them away somewhere safely so you can re-use them of 1300 cars off again next Christmas. Try to swap your old incandescent the road for Christmas lights for energy-efficient LED ones, there are a year. many stores running these types of schemes. If you must get rid of your old incandescent lights take the time to find a local recycling centre. 230,000 tonnes of festive food waste more than enough to feed the German population for a day or Lithuania for a month. Every year, GLASS an estimated 4,500 tonnes of tin Rinse out glass drinks bottles to get rid of any left over liquid. foil is thrown away in the UK. Give the lids a quick wash and pop them separately into the This thrown out tin foil could cover recycle bin too. Put each glass bottle into the correct bank for North East Lincolnshire 20 times. its colour. Mixing up the colours lowers the quality of recyclable glass. * Based on WRAP research