Take it as red: Have a green Christmas

ENOUGH alcohol to fill Lough Derg more than 50 times will be consumed by revellers this Christmas, as households are being asked to wrap their celebrations in green this year.

Take it as red: Have a green Christmas

Repak aims to collect and recycle 48% of the Christmas packaging waste generated over the holiday period. It is estimated a massive 75,000 tonnes of packaging will be generated.

Put into context, it includes: enough glass to produce 12 billion glass Christmas baubles, enough steel to make 400 Spire replicas and enough plastic bottles used to produce 483,114 fleece Santa suits.

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