20,000 tonnes of business Christmas cards to end up binned this year

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Envirowise urges firms to post paper-saving Christmas e-cards instead

This Christmas will see 20,000 tonnes of card ending up as waste as businesses and consumers send each other festive greetings cards, according to government-backed sustainability experts Envirowise...

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