White Christmas, Green Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone!
We’re having a very unusual white Christmas here in Vancouver, and I hope everyone is driving safely and enjoying the snow.
I would like to remind you, though, to try for a green Christmas despite all the snow. By green, of course, I mean merry for the Earth as well as for us. Today your gifts are most likely all wrapped and ready, so it’s too late to focus on Reducing (by making a reusable bag into part of the gift) and Reusing (last year’s saved wrapping paper or other colourful paper from magazines or the funnies section of the newspaper), but you can still make Recycling a part of your holiday.
If you can’t or won’t save this year’s wrapping paper for next year—and yes, that does involve opening presents carefully rather than tearing into them—you can at least make sure it goes into the recycling bin rather than the garbage bag. Wrapping paper is paper, after all, and there’s a lot of it around the world on Christmas morning. If we all recycle it, that’s doing more than just a little bit for the planet.
