Something you could do in this upcoming christmas to give your gift to our planet -
1. Stop gift-wrapping with gift-wrap papers. You could wrap it by a few beautiful fashion/christmas ad-prints from magazines/newspaper instead which could present an equally festive mood to those receiving your gifts.
2. Turn out any christmas lighting at home when you are going out - it really consumes valuable energy & does not cheer up anybody when no one is at home!
3. Reuse & recycle your christmas trees & decorations - the metallic colours of these stuff consumes a lot of energy to be produced and trasnported to your hands, and some of these are very difficult to decompose organically or simply won't.
4. If you don't really know what your friends/family want for christmas, give them cash or gift cards. Buying something they may not feel of any use is truly something you don't want to happen, is it? Alternatively, consider events instead of physcial gifts - isn't it great that all of you could have a great time together?
5. Send christmas cards made of recycling paper if you really want to.
6. Prepare your own party food instead of buying delivery/hamper food. It is much more fun to prepare the food & share together, and always worth the little extra time.
7. Take public transport when going out as much as you could.
start from today -
Stop buying bottled water when going out - bring a small bottle of water on your own is not something difficult to do. Order tap water when dining out instead of bottled water, it would save you money as well as reduce energy & material consumption for producing the glass/plastic bottles and fancy packaging. Think how crazy that the water you drink needs to travel from some springs in france across the continent & ocean to reach you where actually it is so readily available at your local tap!
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