BYOB: When shopping this holiday season - Bring Your Own Bag!Green Gifts: Give green and receive green. Make sure your gifts are easy on the environment. If you are planning to
buy some ecofriendly gadgets, make sure you check their efficiency rating before you buy them for your loved ones. This way you can inspire your loved ones to go green too!
Green Wrapping: A Green Gift needs green wrapping
too. Instead of buying shiny, glossy wrapping paper, be as creative as you can be. Use old grocery bags as a gift wrap. If simple brown wrapping papers don’t appeal to you, then you can always make them look beautiful with markers and crayons. You can also use newspapers and magazines for the same. If still you think your gift deserves something flashier, then you can also recycle the
wrapping of the gifts you receive.
Green Christmas Tree: Prevent some trees from being cut by recycling old stuff into a Christmas trees or buy a cardboard Christmas tree
. If you still feel that your Christmas celebrations cannot be made complete without an actual tree then you can go for a living Christmas tree
that can be planted in your garden once the celebrations are over. On the other hand, if you want nothing other than a regular evergreen then make sure you mulch your tree. Christmas trees can easily be turned into mulch, putting their valuable resources back into the natural system.
Sustainable Food: Be it any type of celebration, food plays an important role. What you cook and how you cook makes the mere difference. Make sure you make use of local, fresh,
organic and sustainably-sourced ingredients. From appetizers to the main course meal, everything should be made as sustainable as you can.
Reusable/Biodegradable cutlery: Don’t go for disposable plastic cutlery this Christmas. Research indicates that plastic can take thousands of years to decompose and during that time they pollute the already scarce water reserves, thereby entering the food chain and giving rise to many water-borne diseases. A better way is to use normal cutlery or biodegradable cutlery
and wash them with rain-harvested water.
Recycle: Continue to recycle as much as possible!
Have a safe and wonderful holiday!
L.K.S. Eco Team
