Tree provokes thought (From Salisbury Journal)

Tree provokes thought

11:33am Thursday 15th December 2011 in Green living By Anne Morris

SAY no to unwanted packaging this Christmas. That was the Lanham family’s message for its thought provoking Christmas tree made of cardboard packaging.

The Christmas tree entitled What we get for Christmas was part of St Thomas’s Church in Salisbury’s annual Christmas tree festival held in the first week of December.

Every year, families buy extra items for the festive season, much of which is over-packaged and then it is all too easy just to throw it away.

Cardboard packaging including boxes can be flattened and recycled in Wiltshire Council’s blue topped bins or at the Churchfields and Amesbury’s recycling centres.

And what about real Christmas trees?

These too can be recycled.

Residents in south Wiltshire who currently have a garden waste bin can leave their Christmas tree by the side of the bin for collection on the normal scheduled collection day during January. Otherwise they can be taken to the council recycling centres.

If you live in the New Forest area, you can take your tree to one of the recycling centres, or you can put it with your normal recycling as long as it is no more than 1.8 metres (6ft) tall.