Birmingham charities to benefit from local recycling incentive
Howard Lake | 21 January 2008 | News
Smurfit Kappa Recycling and Birmingham City Council are encouraging residents of Birmingham to recycle more this month and raise money for local charities.
If residents can recycle more paper and card than they did in January 2007, Smurfit Kappa Recycling will make a donation to the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s charities which include the Birmingham Scout Association, Birmingham Guide Association, Edward’s Trust and St Mary’s Hospice.
‘Mixed paper’ waste such as gift catalogues, Christmas cards, envelopes, wrapping paper and mince pie boxes can be recycled at Smurfit Kappa Recycling’s paper and card banks and through the Council’s kerbside collection scheme. All material is then transported directly to the local Smurfit Kappa paper mill where it is recycled.
Dave Cowing, commercial manager for Smurfit Kappa Recycling in Birmingham said: “With the festive period accounting for three million tonnes of the UK’s annual waste, we are keen to ensure that as much as possible is diverted from landfill sites and into our paper mill where it can be recycled into packaging materials to protect new products on their journey from factory or farm to homes.”
Smurfit Kappa Recycling recycles 500,000 tonnes of paper and card a year at its mills in Kent and Birmingham.
www.smurfitkappa-recycling.com
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.