RECYCLE your Christmas tree and you could win a prize.
A joint campaign by Ryedale District and North Yorkshire County councils and Yorwaste aims to make the season a little greener.
In addition to taking your tree to the shredder, please recycle your bottles, cans and wrapping and take unwanted pressies to hospitals or charity shops.
Christmas cards can be recycled from January 5 to February 1 at WH Smith's and Tesco's stores and this will support the Woodland Trust in planting and maintaining woodlands.
Anyone taking a Christmas tree to their local household waste and recycling centre from January 2-12 can collect a voucher to enter the free prize draw. Or, residents receiving separate kerbside garden waste recycling collections can include their tree for recycling and they will be automatically entered into the prize draw.
The draw prizes are a UK weekend break (value £300), a Patagonia fleece jacket made of recycled plastic bottles or wine glasses made of recycled glass.
The centres are as follows: Malton, Pasture Lane; Norton, off Eastfield Avenue; Thornton-le-Dale, Outgang Lane; Wombleton, Cockerhill Lane; Seamer Carr, Dunslow Lane, Eastfield; Strensall, Towthorpe.
Green tips for business
The Environment Agency has launched a website called 'Netregs' which provides simplified guidance on environmental obligations.
It has been developed to help small and medium enterprises to understand the practical implications of very detailed and rapidly changing environmental law and policy.
Netregs is free and anonymous and you don't have to speak to the regulator. To find out more, visit www.environment-agency.gov.uk/netregs.
Free energy audits are available to SMEs with under 250 employees and with a combined fuel bill of between £5,000 and £50,000 per annum. There are no catches - simply contact Action Energy officer Owen Daggett on (01904) 656769 to arrange a visit.
If your annual fuel bill exceeds £50,000 then arrange for an Action Energy consultant to visit you by calling (0800) 585794.
Updated: 14:48 Monday, December 22, 2003
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