KEETCH RECYCLES CHRISTMAS CARDS TO HELP FUND TREE PLANTING

9.00.00am GMT Wed 31st Dec 2008

Paul Keetch MP will help the Woodland Trust create new woods by recycling his Christmas cards at WH Smith, High Town, Hereford.

Cards are recycled, throughout January, in bins at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer.

All of the cards collected during the campaign are taken to paper mills where they are recycled into brand new paper products, with money raised helping the UK's leading woodland conservation charity plant thousands of trees.

Last year 73.6 million cards were recycled which enabled the Woodland Trust plant 17,000 trees in some of its 1,000 UK woods.

Paul Keetch MP said, "Since the scheme was founded 12 years ago more than 600 million cards have been recycled which has enabled the charity to plant 140,000 trees."

For more information log onto www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/cards