“Green” your Holiday Season!

It’s time to Buy, Wrap, Decorate, Celebrate!

Here’s some Tips to Green your Holiday!

Reduce:

• Buy less - give gifts of your time, such as cooking, babysitting, or tickets to an event, which all require little to no packaging.
• Use LED holiday lights (which require 1/50th of the electricity of conventional lights) when decorating.
• Consider taking public transportation or carpooling with friends or relatives when traveling during the holidays.
• When shopping, combine your purchases into one bag rather than getting a new bag at each store.

Recycle:

• When sending or giving cards or stationary, look for paper with the highest percentage of post-consumer recycled content.
• Plan a "re-gift" swap with your like-minded friends and family to recycle your unwanted gifts.

Reuse:

• Try wrapping your gifts in old magazines, newspapers, posters, or children's artwork.
• Use last year's holiday cards to create this years "to" and "from" labels.
• Reuse gift bags instead of throwing them away.
• Save clothing boxes, ribbons, bows and wrapping paper to reuse next year.
• Make your holiday decorations from things found in nature such as a basket of evergreen branches, berries, twigs, bark, herbs, etc.
• Don’t forget to bring your reusable shopping bag if you do go shopping.
• Use re-usable cups, plates, silverware and utensils at your holiday party.

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