News / Recycle your Christmas cards
SHETLANDERS are being encouraged to keep hold of their unwanted Christmas cards instead of binning them so they can be recycled on the mainland.
Westside fundraiser Sharon Deyell is again organising a number of collection points across Shetland for cards before they are shipped south to be recycled.
The collection points have yet to be confirmed but anyone interested can contact Sharon on 01595 810798 or on Facebook.
The last campaign saw cards sent south by haulage company Northwards free of charge to a Marks and Spencer store in Aberdeen, which was one of many across the UK taking in donations.
Sharon is unable to send cards to M&S this year so she asked Shetland Islands Council if they could help, but “finances and legislation” put paid to that idea.
It is now hoped that Sainsbury’s – which runs a recycling scheme which sees the supermarket donate money to the Forest Stewardship Council – will take in the cards at one of its Scottish stores.
If its impending deadline is not able to be extended then Sharon may have to use a private recycling business in Glasgow, which said it will waive any fees.
Sharon added that local haulage company Northwards “saved the day again” by offering to ship the cards for free.
UPDATE: Details of the collection points can be found on Facebook.
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