In an era of "reduce, reuse and recycle", the Ideal Home Show at Christmas is teaming up with the Little Tree Company to offer a unique, ‘Christmas Tree Hire Scheme’; a new way of hiring and recycling your Christmas to help reduce waste from your home this year.
In partnership with The Little Tree Company, the Ideal Home Show at Christmas will create a 1001 strong Christmas Tree snowflake shaped maze, offering beautifully pruned and potted Christmas trees that you can select to annually hire over the Christmas period, for the same price as a normal cut tree.
Once at the end of the Christmas period, the tree can then be collected by the Little Tree Company in the New Year and re‐planted to be rented out again the following Christmas, making perfect wildlife habitats over the rest of the year.
Once the tree finally grows too big for the home, The Little Tree Company will plant it out where it can grow into the towering giant it aspires to be, creating beautiful woodlands and habitats for Britain’s wildlife and find a final resting place in a variety of community locations from schools to nursing homes.
Figures show that only 10% of the UK’s 6 million Christmas Trees are recycled each year for composting and wood chipping. The rest goes into landfill - a wasted opportunity to create biomass that could provide nutrients for depleted soil.
Unlike normal Christmas trees, these especially grown and pruned rental trees don't cost the earth and use the most eco-friendly and sustainable growing methods available. Every Christmas tree recycled by this scheme will save one cubic yard of landfill space per tree, with each re-planted average tree then absorbing approximately 1 ton of carbon - that’s around 10% of your annual carbon footprint.
Unlike standard cut trees, these recycled pot grown trees won’t die whilst on display, nor will they drop all of their needles like cut Christmas trees do, meaning they last longer and look fresher for the whole Christmas season.
Lee Newton, Managing Director of the Ideal Home Show at Christmas, commented: “It is always a bit heart-breaking to see bare bristled Christmas trees dumped and discarded along the streets every January, so we are proud to be able to offer our visitors an alternative way of purchasing and recycling their Christmas trees this year.
“Not only will we help offset their home’s carbon footprint, but this initiative will help reduce the domestic waste created by Christmas trees, whilst allowing the trees to live on beyond the holiday season as they are replanted and reused year after year, or rehoused in communities and more permanent locations. “
Visitors to this year’s show will be able to enter the maze and reserve their very own tree from a variety of 3 different species in a range of sizes from mini 2ft trees right up to 7 footers.
Once you have selected your tree it will be reserved and delivered to your door just in time for the Christmas period. This service costs from as little as £29.95 and £16.95 for the delivery and collection, so you won’t have to worry about where to get rid of the tree after Christmas, saving on your domestic waste.
In addition to this eco Christmas tree rental service, The Little Tree Company will also be offering an eco-decor service, where they decorate the trees with a range of dried fruits, spices and flower heads all sourced from nature’s craft cupboard, as well as a range of eco gift ideas which include Botanical Beverages and Gourmet Woodland Mushroom Logs.
So like you might already do with your cards, your wrapping paper and your empty bottles ,do your bit for the environment and recycle a living Christmas tree with The Little Tree Company rental scheme. Come with the whole family and pick your own tree for hire at The Ideal Home Show at Christmas, from the 16th to the 20th November at Earls Court.
The Little Tree Company hires out specially pot grown and pruned Christmas Trees delivered directly to your door for the price of a cut tree. They are then collected from your doorstep in the New Year. Once back home, the potted trees are maintained again until the following Christmas, making perfect wildlife habitats over the rest of the year. Once the trees finally grow too big for houses they find their final resting places planted out in a variety of community locations from schools to nursing homes.
Graham Willett of The little Tree Company talks you through how to have a beautiful tree that doesn't cost the earth, from what to look for, how to recycle and re-use your tree if you already have an artificial or cut tree, or better still, how and why to rent a tree this Christmas. Watch charming decorating ideas take shape all using materials and decorations from sustainable sources, available to make and buy at our Christmas Trees to Rent winter wonderland feature at the show.'http://www.thelittletreecompany.com/:
Ideal Home Show at Christmas: The Ideal Home Show Christmas will run over five days, from the 16th – 20th November at London’s Earls Court, based on the same format as the London and Scotland events, including the brand’s flagship zoned areas that include; Ideal Home Improvements, Food, Interiors and Woman sections, but featuring a Christmas twist and with more Gadgets, shopping and gifts for all the family, in time for the busiest retail shopping period of the year.
Source: Stuart Higgins Communications on behalf of Ideal Home Show at Christmas
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