Don’t let Christmas be a Waste of time — recycle
In fact, if we placed the beer bottles we consume end to end we’d have enough to cover the route from Ireland to Lapland and back — five times over.
We use an estimated 6m rolls of wrapping paper — about the same weight as 94,240 Christmas trees — for the average €500 worth of gifts purchased by each household, according to Repak, the not-for-profit scheme for recycling used packaging..
