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Have a very merry green Christmas — send e-​​cards

It’s not quite what Bing Crosby was dream­ing of, but Edin­burgh Coun­cil has urged res­id­ents to have a green Christ­mas this year.

The coun­cil hopes to greenify the fest­ive season by encour­aging people to send e-​​cards, and buy recycled gifts.

Accord­ing to this press release, Brad­ford & Bingley is jump­ing on the band­wagon too. It says that an estim­ated 22,000 tonnes of Christ­mas cards will be dumped this fest­ive season. Of course, many of them are likely to get recycled, but that’s still a lot of land­fill for a friendly fest­ive gesture.

Brad­ford & Bingley is among the cor­por­a­tions that have signed up to be a part of the Crisis Christ­mas Card Chal­lenge, an ini­ti­at­ive that aims to help the cor­por­ate sector to go green, whilst help­ing the home­less people’s charity.

It isn’t just busi­nesses that can cut down on cards, though. You can’t stand an e-​​card up on your man­tel­piece, but send­ing one is a way that anyone can spread Christ­mas cheer, without cre­at­ing a new year’s card­board mountain.

We’ve been scour­ing the net for the best ones about – some are free, some are not-​​so-​​free, but it’s all for a good cause.

E-​​CARDS for free
-Friends of the Earth
-Dia­betes UK
-NCH, the children’s char­ity
-Shel­ter

E-​​CARDS for money
-Marie Curie
-Char­ity e-​​cards – choose what char­ity you want to donate to, and then take your pick from a nice gal­lery of designs.
-No cards thanks – the same concept as char­ity e-​​cards, with dif­fer­ent char­it­ies (and cards!) to choose from.

Of course, it’s still nice to have a real card, and if you are send­ing them make sure you do so before Royal Mail’s last post­ing dates.

If you end up receiv­ing plenty, you needn’t just sling them into the recyc­ling come the twelfth night. Cut­ting the front off each lets you use it as a name tag for next year’s presents – just be sure to check first for any stray sweet noth­ings that you wouldn’t want Gran to see.

IMAGE by Flickr user foxypar4

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Ori­gin­ally posted 2007-​​12-​​09 01:36:00. Repub­lished by Blog Post Promoter

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