Recycle your Christmas cards

The actor is urging the public to recycle their Christmas cards with the Woodland Trust in the last ever year of its annual recycling scheme.

The star of the legendary Sharpe series is asking residents right throughout the UK to ‘do battle against waste’ by leaving their cards in special recycling bins which will be in place at TK Maxx and M&S stores this January.

Movie legend Sean Bean said: “I would like to urge everyone to be at the sharp end and help the Woodland Trust do battle against Christmas waste this year by recycling Christmas cards with participating retailers in January.  

“Your support will help fund the planting of thousands of native trees across the UK; something I have personally been involved in and supported as a member of the Trust. This is the final year of the scheme so please do your bit to help it go out with a bang.”

All of the trees planted through the scheme contribute to the Trust’s ‘More Trees, More Good’ campaign, which aims to see 20 million trees planted in the UK each year to help double native woodland cover.

After recycling your cards, log onto www.MoreTreesMoreGood.org.uk/cards and choose where you would like trees funded by the scheme to be planted.

Last year donations from participating retailers enabled 12,000 native trees to be planted in the UK. This year the charity aims to plant the 200,000th tree of the scheme.