No matter how hard you try to avoid it, Christmas always seems to leave us with mounds of packaging to dispose of. Cardboard, bubblewrap, wrapping paper, polystyrene, cards and envelopes, food cartons, plastic drinks bottles, the list goes on and on before we even get to mentioning the Christmas tree, door wreath and optimistically hung mistletoe.
When I was young my parents used to get their turkey from a local farmer and it arrived well wrapped up in a sturdy cardboard box with handles. We still use these boxes, several decades later, to