Get daily festive recycling tips with new interactive advent calendar
News from our partners Veolia
The countdown to Christmas has officially started. To get everyone in the festive mood, Veolia has launched an online advent calendar where each day you can get hints and tips on how to recycle this Christmas. In addition, the interactive calendar has lots of interesting facts about the waste we all dispose of every day.
Steve Mitchell, area director Midlands West from Veolia, commented:
“The Christmas period produces an extra 30 per cent more waste every year, mainly because of all the decorations, wrapping paper and cards that people throw away after the big event. In fact, each year we use enough wrapping paper to stretch to the moon.
“We want to help everyone find ways of reducing waste now, as well as how they can recycle their Christmas waste. So we thought this advent calendar would be a great way to get everyone thinking about how they can reduce waste at home and at work. The calendar has daily tips on how to send an alternative Christmas card, and how to make fun Christmas decorations from waste materials.
“In addition, there’s lots of facts about how many Christmas trees are thrown away every year and how many turkeys will be sold this Christmas.”
And it’s not just wrapping paper and cards that we can all recycle, the advent calendar provides lots of tips about how you can use up extra food, as well as how to buy that special gift which will last a year, so there really is no waste.
Steve added:
“We’d encourage everyone to take look; it really is a great little tool to learn more about recycling and how we can all play our part to reduce waste this Christmas.”
The advent calendar can be found on the Veolia Shropshire website, at http://www.veolia.co.uk/shropshire/about-us/who-we-are/news/get-daily-festive-recycling-tips-new-interactive-advent-calendar
Take a look at what handy recycling tip is hiding behind door 2 today.
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We are committed to protecting the environment and improving the lives of the communities in which we operate and have been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development and received a Four Star rating in Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility Index for 2015.
Veolia group is the global leader in optimized resource management. With over 174,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and to replenish them. In 2014, the group Veolia supplied 96 million people with drinking water and 60 million people with wastewater service, produced 52 million megawatt hours of energy and converted 31 million metric tons of waste into new materials and energy. Veolia Environnement (listed on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated revenue of €25.0 billion in 2015.
