Turn your festive waste into woodland this January

Special card collection bins will be in place in M&S stores this month, and M&S will fund the planting of one tree for every 1,000 cards recycled.

Thanks to the public’s efforts last year, the UK is 10,000 trees richer – a staggering 10 million cards were dropped into M&S stores.    

 Patrick Cregg, director of the Woodland Trust, says: “We’re appealing to the Northern Ireland public to get behind this fantastic scheme.  Please make a point of saving your cards from the rubbish bin and instead drop them off at M&S when you’re out and about shopping this January. It’s a post-Christmas gift to the environment and an easy way to help turn unwanted waste into much-needed trees.”