Cardboard supplier RH Fibreboard has visited Beech Grove Primary School in Wellington to promote forestry management, sustainability, recycling and use of renewable products like cardboard to Year 5 and 6 children.

TICCIT, or ‘Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees’, involves teaching school children about trees, recycling and paper, then helping them plant a tree sapling inside a cardboard box, which can be planted out at home in the box because it biodegrades.

Steve Gabell, director of the Wellington-based company, said: “The aim is to show the loop of renewable packaging from tree to product, and then back to tree. With the school having ‘Environment Week’ early in the New Year, this was a fitting programme to run just prior to that.  ‘It’s hugely uplifting and fulfilling seeing the children’s enjoyment at planting the trees and listening to their own excellent knowledge on how and why we should protect our environment.”

The trees and boxes given by the company were silver birch sourced from the Woodland Trust.

The company hopes to visit other schools in the area this year to run the same programme.