There are many ways to make the holidays a happy and also healthy experience. We feel healthy can include thinking about our holiday related contribution to the landfill.
We therefore offer a few ideas for wrapping and a reminder about dining and cleaning:
- Wrap packages with recycled biodegradable brown paper. Michaels, Amazon and other stores carry it.
- Reuse gift bags and tissue paper. We would say that gifting with reused packaging is equally thoughtful to purchasing new.
- Skip metallic items as these are not biodegradable. This includes the sparkly pom pom-like wrapping decor and the ribbon with sparkly threads.
- Given the potential of increased company and also action in the kitchen, for dining we choose cloth napkins and for cleaning we choose sponge or washable cloths.
Take the nonrecyclable out of the landfills and healthy into the hearts of us all.
Happy holiday season!
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