Happy Holidays and an eco-friendly  reminder to have a greener, leaner year.
Top 10 Tips for a Green Christmas Day
1.) Recycle Your Christmas Tree
2.) Recycle Your burnt out light bulbs and batteries
3.) Recycle your Christmas Waste or better yet, fold up neatly and reuse for other presents and gifts in the upcoming year. Best yet wrap presents in reusable bags.
4.) Don’t throwaway food leftovers, give away, freeze or remake into delicious soups.
5.) Carpool or use mass transportation as much as you can.
6.) Drink organic wines and beverages and best yet drink tap water (FREE)
7.) Conserve energy, remember to turn off all lights at the end of the evening.
8.) It’s not too late to give the give of a donation to your favorite charity.
9.) Don’t like your gift, consider donating or re-gifting. Just don’t throw it away.
10.) Take reusable bags if you are going to another home, or need to deliver presents.
I’ve got a great + super simple tip. The next time you’re purchasing a gift card– go for the electronic (and paperless) option, an eGift card. Each year, 75 millions lbs of PVC is dumped into landfills from plastic gift card waste (Plenty Magazine). That’s an astronomical amount of waste for something that can easily and conveniently be sent virtually. PVC is notoriously difficult to recycle and cannot be tossed into the recycling bin along side your other household items. You must send those pesky plastic cards to a PVC recycling plant, the only one I know of is EarthWorks. For a directory of retailers that offer an eGift card, try http://www.giftzip.com …it is the most extensive one I have found to date. Hope that helped. đŸ™‚