Happy New Year! At Parklands, January has been designated as recycling month. Please bring in your Christmas cards for recycling by The Woodland Trust. We want to create a huge pile to show just how much recycling we as a community create. The children will be learning about recycling in assembly; did you know that it takes 100,000 years for a glass bottle to break down in a landfill site? Plastic bottles never break down.
- Recycling helps to tackle climate change. Waste sent to landfill can create methane – a powerful greenhouse gas. If we all recycle just one card this Christmas this would save 1,570 tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases – the same as taking 500 cars off the road for a year.
- Recycling cards makes people think about consumer waste – particularly relevant at Christmas.
- 73.6 million cards were recycled by the scheme in 2008.
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