Christmas cards are 'turned into trees'
Recycling old Christmas cards has been top of the agenda for Stowmarket town council this month.
The Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity, has made a commitment to turn old Christmas cards into new trees, with the aim of planting a total of 12 million new saplings.
Jackie Regan, the town's promotion officer, said: "We entered Anglia in Bloom last year for the first time and went straight in at a silver award but we were lacking a bit with recycling so we're determined this year to do better."
Townspeople in support of the green project have been dropping old cards off at the town council offices, the community centre and the Thorntree Day Centre.
The number of trees that will be planted in Stowmarket is dependant on the number of cards collected, which so far has reached more than 10,000.
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