Editing Christmas card (section)

==Environmental impact and recycling==
[[File:Holly Christmas card from NLI.jpg|thumb|Christmas card with holly]]
[[File:Hnizdovsky Rizdvo1.gif|thumb|[[Jacques Hnizdovsky]] Christmas card]]
During the first 70 years of the 19th century it was common for Christmas and other greeting cards to be recycled by women's service organizations who collected them and removed the pictures, to be pasted into scrap books for the entertainment of children in hospitals, orphanages, kindergartens and missions. With children's picture books becoming cheaper and more readily available, this form of scrap-booking has almost disappeared.

Recent concern over the environmental impact of printing, mailing and delivering cards has fueled an increase in e-cards.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112800673_2.html?sid=ST2007112801072 |title=The Greening of Christmas |author=Jura Koncius |date=29 November 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=22 September 2010 |archive-date=7 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107051545/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112800673_2.html?sid=ST2007112801072 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/dec/13/christmas2006.greenchristmas |title=Avoiding the wrap tap |author=Hilary Osborne |date=13 December 2006 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=22 September 2010 |location=London |archive-date=6 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140406124020/http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/dec/13/christmas2006.greenchristmas |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] conservation charity [[Woodland Trust]] runs an annual campaign to collect and [[recycling|recycle]] Christmas cards to raise awareness of recycling and collect donations from corporate sponsors and supporters. All recycled cards help raise money to plant more trees. In the 12 years that the Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling Scheme has been running, more than 600 million cards have been recycled. This has enabled the Woodland Trust to plant more than 141,000 trees, save over 12,000 tonnes of paper from landfill and stop over 16,000 tonnes of CO<sup>2</sup> from going into the atmosphere – the equivalent to taking more than 5,000 cars off the road for a year.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/cards/|title = Christmas Card Recycling Scheme|work = Woodland Trust Website|publisher = Woodland Trust}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The scheme has had celebrity supporters including Jo Brand, Dermot O' Leary and Sean Bean and is the longest running scheme of its type in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/our-partners/corporate-partners/marks-and-spencer/|title = Woodland Trust M&S Partnership|access-date = 9 November 2015|website = Woodland Trust Website|archive-date = 10 March 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170310201007/http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/our-partners/corporate-partners/marks-and-spencer/|url-status = live}}</ref>