November
 Does your company send christmas cards?
 We send e-cards generally but we do send Christmas cards to our volunteers which double as invitations to our Christmas party. We appreciate people may want to send a card if they are enclosing something like a gift voucher.
“The cards we send come from our creative waste exchange - ones that were unused by a corporate member and would have been destined for landfill but which we have managed to reuse.
“We want to minimise the amount of waste that goes to landfill so would encourage people to send as few cards as possible and then to used recycled cards or perhaps make your own from last year’s cards.
“However we do appreciate there are people who like the tradition of Christmas cards and we have to bear that in mind and be sensitive to their feelings.
Lynn Smith, chief executive of the environmental charity Aberdeen Forward
 At Thorpe Molloy Recruitment we like to do things a little differently every Christmas. This year we are going to send our clients a calendar compromising the short listed self- portraits of young North-east artists who took part in our secondary schools’ art competition,
’My Aspirational Self.’
“The entries, which express the youngsters’ ambitions for the future, were really fantastic and we think this community project adds a bit more value than just sending cards.
“Personally, because Aberdeen isn’t my home town, I’ll be sending out cards as I like to keep in touch with family and friends in the UK and overseas. I feel it is important to support the charities personal to you at all times of the year.
Amanda McCulloch, Managing Director, Thorpe Molloy Recruitment Ltd
 We send them to our customer base because we feel it is a personal greeting from our executive director, Kieran White, thanking our customers for their trade and loyalty for the previous year.
“It also gives us the opportunity to personally wish them the best for the festive season.
“We make charitable donations throughout the year and Cash For Kids is our nominated charity.
“We send out about 100 cards in the UK but we send e-mail cards to our customers in Asia Pacific, the Americas and Africa because of the cost and because of the environmental implications of sending cards all over the world as they would have to go by aeroplane. But people on our doorstep certainly receive a card which is posted or hand delivered.
Ian Cass, Sales and Marketing Director, Coates Offshore
 Of course we send cards, what paper maker wouldn't? On a local basis we send Christmas cards to our suppliers and business associates. The French parent company, also sends out corporate New Year cards from our Paris headquarters. The cards are obviously produced on our paper and serve to promote our products.
“Personally I send out many cards and it is a standing joke between myself and my wife that I send cards to people I haven't seen for 10 years but I think it is a great way to keep in touch. A donation is a good alternative but as a matter of principal I do everything I possibly can to encourage the responsible use of paper.
“Many of our papers use recycled fibre and all the pulp we use is from managed forests designed to grow wood on a sustainable basis. Stoneywood Mill achieved the environmental standard ISO14001 in 1996 which emphasises our good stewardship of the environment.
Angus MacSween, General Manager of ArjoWiggins Fine Papers Ltd
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