Race is on to recycle old Yellow Pages directories and create new woodland

Schoolchildren across Welwyn Hatfield are about to join in the race to recycle old Yellow Pages directories and help increase woodland in England.

Thousands of local pupils will be taking part in the Yellow Woods Challenge – the simple, educational and fun environmental campaign for schools run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust. The initiative is being managed in the borough by Serco, in partnership with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council.

Yellow Pages is offering a share of £600 in cash prizes to schools that recycle the most old directories per pupil, plus a bonus prize of £100 for the most improved school. And for every pound awarded to schools, Yellow Pages will give a matching pound to the Woodland Trust – the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. 

Funds raised through the Yellow Woods Challenge will be invested in the Woodland Trust’s most ambitious children’s tree planting campaign ever launched – ‘Tree For All’ – which aims to plant 12 million trees by 2009.

Read the full story in the press release