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Eco-Friendly Holiday Tips

According to Use Less Stuff (ULS), "Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year's holiday period than any other time of year. The extra waste amounts to 25 million tons of garbage.” Check out these tips for trimming your holiday wasteline.

Using LED holiday lights instead of incandescent holiday lights can reduce energy consumption by up to 93%. In addition, they last up to 200,000 hours when used indoors and are virtually indestructible. For more information visit the Focus on Energy Web site at www.focusonenergy.com/Residential/Lighting/LED_holiday_lights.aspx
Paideia School's Nearly Zero Waste Thanksgiving Feast for 1000 - The Parent Green Team at Paideia School in Atlanta, GA wasn’t satisfied with simply recycling plastic utensils and containers for turkeys, mashed potatoes and green beans from the school’s traditional Thanksgiving feast. They wanted zero waste.
Tips for Trimming Your Holiday Wasteline from Use Less Stuff
Earth 911 features a special Holiday section that includes helpful holiday waste reduction, reuse and recycling tips; tree recycling locations; and even a printable ornament to hang on trees as a reminder to "treecycle" them after the holidays.
Ideas for how to reuse Christmas trees as winter shelter and food for birds.
Christmas with No Presents? Read about one family’s daring experiment - Christmas without all the stuff - in the winter issue of YES! magazine.
No Waste Gift Giving and Gift Wrapping Ideas from California Waste Management
Fun Eco-Friendly Holiday Projects - Gift ideas plus projects for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa From Care 2 Make a Difference
Favorite Green Gifts from YES! magazine
Let your students exercise their creative and critical thinking skills to develop their own class list of tips and ideas for an eco-friendly holiday!

Resource Types: Online Resources / Websites

Audience Served: Families, General Public, Home Schools, Non-formal Educators, Scouts/Youth Groups, Teachers

Age Groups: All Ages

Environmental Focus: Consumer Education

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