PEOPLE are being urged to contribute to a tree planting and woodland programme.
Every aluminium drinks can and kilo of foil people recycle in North Yorkshire will count towards the programme, organised by the UK Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, Alupro.
More than 35,000 native trees will be planted in woodlands, parks and private gardens throughout the UK in the autumn of 2004 - all through people getting into the recycling habit.
Councils in North Yorkshire have registered and a tree will be planted locally for every tonne of aluminium cans and foil recycled. Yorwaste, which collects and recycles aluminium from Household Waste Recycling Centres and from kerbside schemes, says 100 tonnes of aluminium cans are recycled each year in North Yorkshire and York. This would equate to 100 trees being planted.
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