(From Australia Post)
Everyone enjoys receiving greeting cards from relatives and friends during the festive season.  Australia Post, as well as delivering cards, now plays an important role in recycling them.

Each year from Boxing Day until the end of January customers can pick up a free reply-paid recycling envelope from participating Australia Post outlets - while stocks last.   This is such a simple way to be involved in recycling, especially for our regional customers, and a very easy way for people to see that recycling reinvents the old to create the new!

The envelope fits approximately 60 cards and is clearly and colourfully labelled.  All the envelopes are sent to recycling facilities in each state where they are turned into 'SAFE' paper products.

This year's campaign was a huge success, with more than 11.7 million Christmas cards sent through the Australia Post mail network for recycling.

Since the Cards 4 Planet Ark campaign began 14 years ago, over 600 million greeting cards have been recycled - saving over 115,000 trees.  By working together we can all make an even greater contribution to our environment.

http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1467,CH3374%257EMO19,00.html