Posted by WHILE Christmas time is a celebration, it also is a chance to showcase your true green spirit and talk about methods such as reuse, reduce and recycle.
You should firstly look out for gorgeous Australian eco friendly Christmas cards by Earth Greetings – unique festive flora and fauna designs, carbon neutral, made from recycled paper, printed with vegetable dyes.
Eco Christmas decorations made from reycled tin, like Earth Greetings’ famous Angels with Attitude and Australian beeswax candles for a healthy, green Christmas glow in your home.
Here’s some green tips for you this Christmas brought to you by Titan Resources.
Good for the environment plastic-free picnics
Disposable plastic plates and cups are made from petrochemicals, so pollution is made in their manufacture and when thrown-away they sit in landfill forever.
Trim a living tree
When Santa arrives in his carbon-neutral sleigh, surprise him with a live Australian Wollemi pine tree. This recently discovered prehistoric tree is now for sale in nurseries.
Wrap it again
A fantastic stretch the budget and save piles of waste is to wrap presents in newspaper, magazines and even junk mail. For children use the comics, for car lovers use the motoring pages. wrapping, place gifts inside reusable shopping bags, or sew cloth bags from festive Christmas material that your family can re-tie with ribbon yearly.
Pass it on to the Salvos
Pass any unsuitable gifts off to a charity such as The Salvation Army.
A green Christmas gift for your garden
Food scraps make up a huge portion of rubbish and once in landfill they generate methane, a concentrated greenhouse gas.
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