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Recycle your Christmas cards

02 Jan 2013

Pop your Christmas cards in your office's blue recycling bag - and then watch the Environmental Sustainability Team's short video to see what will happen to them.

In 2010/11, we recycled around 363 tonnes of office paper, enough to make 1,061,404 compact toilet rolls.

In this video, you can follow the paper as it is collected from around the University, transported to a local recycling plant and processed, before being sent to a tissue manufacturing plant in Derbyshire to begin its new lifecycle:

 

  

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