Celebrating 25 sustainable years with a festive competition

Leading Hull based ethical cleaning and laundry products manufacturer, Bio-D is calling on children's artistic talents to help them to design a 25th anniversary Christmas card.

To celebrate 25 sustainable years of making environmentally friendly products at its Sutton Fields factory, Bio-D is inviting schoolchildren to enter a competition to win a year's subscription to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Commenting on the competition, Bio-D's Sales and Marketing Director Sara Holtby said: "We're very proud to have reached our 25^thanniversary and couldn't have done it without the support of our customers. We wanted our junior fans to be able to join in the celebrations too, so we have set up the design a Christmas card competition."

To enter, children should draw a Christmas picture with an eco theme and send it to Bio-D before 5^thDecember. The winner will be selected on 1^stDecember. Please see www.biodegradable.biz for a full list of terms and conditions. Entries can also be made via the website and viafacebook.

The wildlife theme complements the work that Bio-D has done in the Wolds village of Nunburnholme withThe Warter Fivein Humberside Police's Lifestyle Project.

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For more information, to request samples or to arrange an interview with Sales and Marketing Director Sara Holtby or Managing Director Lloyd Atkin, please contact Tracey Baty at three60 marketing on;

Direct line: 01430 871360

Mobile: 07971 961574

E mail:traceybaty@three60marketing.co.uk

Web:www.three60marketing.co.uk

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For more information about Bio-D, please visitwww.biodegradable.biz

Bio-D was founded in 1988 by naval entrepreneur Michael Barwell who was inspired to set up a business producing ecologically responsible cleaning products by a paper written about pollution from domestic effluent by Canadian A.M.Gower.