I think Smiths used to collect them too. Do they actually do anything more with them than recycle them, ie do they reuse them at all? Or is this something you could get your small people and their school involved in, nice little cottage industry, about time they started paying their way after all
sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 42207 Location: North Devon
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 5:26 pm Post subject:
AFAIK they just get recycled, turning them into gift tags and composting the off-cuts is better. IMHO.
AFAIK they just get recycled, turning them into gift tags and composting the off-cuts is better. IMHO.
Was about to say the same thing meself
wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 9:27 pm Post subject:
If you stop sending Christmas cards, people stop sending them to you (quite right too - if you can't make the effort to say merry Christmas to someone in person or by a letter you would write anyway, why bother?) So you can keep all your christmas cards from year to year and use them and bits of proper ribbon to decorate your dining room!
Any really nice ones, I cut up for tags, and the backs make great lists - they are bit more robust for fishing out of the bottom of your canvash bag when you go into town for bits and pieces!
Cut them all in half and use the half with pictures on for psotcards for competitions. The rest of them can go on the compost heap.
Penny Outskirts
Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 23385 Location: Planet, not on the....
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 10:44 pm Post subject:
Sarah D wrote:
Cut them all in half and use the half with pictures on for psotcards for competitions.
what sort of competitions?
bernie-woman
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 7824 Location: shropshire
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 9:39 am Post subject:
The woodland trust are the people who organise the big christams card recycle. From the ethical christmas article
Recycle any Christmas & New Year cards you receive. The Woodland Trust in 2005 collected and recycled 58 million cards (1,150 tonnes of rubbish). Their target for January 2006 is 60 million. Individuals can take their cards to WHSmith, Tesco Extra and Tesco Superstores from 2nd – 31st January.
Cut them all in half and use the half with pictures on for psotcards for competitions.
what sort of competitions?
All the competitions that ask for your name and address on a postcard, sometimes with the answer to a question, sometimes just your details. I enter a lot of competitions, and have won some worthwhile prizes over the years.