British School Bans Christmas Cards Citing Environmental Concerns
Students at the Belton Lane Primary School in Lincolnshire, England, have been banned from sending Christmas cards to their classmates because the cards are allegedly bad for the environment.
According to Jonathan Mason, head teacher at Belton, students approached him with concerns regarding the “impact of sending Christmas cards on the environment.”
“Throughout the world, we send enough Christmas cards that if we placed them alongside each other, they’d cover the world’s circumference 500 times,” Mason wrote in the letter, which has been posted by Sky News. “The manufacture of Christmas cards is contributing to our ever-growing carbon emissions.”...