It’s the first of December, Christmas lights are twinkling, our festive hats and mittens are keeping us cosy and we’re looking forward to our daily advent chocolate. It’s that time of year again: Christmas Time! Easily our favourite time of year in the Zero Waste Dunbar team, we love the lights, the happiness, the excitement, the fun of it all. However, there’s one thing about Christmas that we never look forward to – the waste.
The facts and stats say that over Christmas time in the UK we will use enough wrapping paper to reach the moon, needing 50,000 trees to be cut down to do it, and up to a billion of our well-meant Christmas cards will end up in landfill.
So let’s do something about it! Throughout December Zero Waste Dunbar will be running a Zero Waste Christmas Campaign with daily tips and inspiration to help us all reduce our waste and enjoy a Zero Waste Christmas. Remember, Zero Waste doesn’t mean Zero Fun, we absolutely love Christmas and we will be celebrating in style, environmentally friendly style. Over the next 24 days we’ll be looking at cards, wrapping, presents, decorations and of course that all import Christmas dinner.
We’re also hosting a Zero Waste Christmas Event on Wednesday 10th December 2014 7-9pm, at the Bleaching Field Centre. Come along and join us for a glass of festive fizz and be inspired to: re-style and re-love your old party dress by our guest fashion designer; up-cycle those old Christmas decorations; get your portions right to save on food waste; and get your house winter ready with free draft proofing from the Household Canny Challenge.
Everyone is welcome, young and old, there will be is something for everyone.
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