The Day After Christmas Recycling Tips

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There always seems to be a lot to clean up after Christmas. Wrapping paper, packaging that gifts came in, food leftovers and more. How can you deal with it all and manufacture the most eco-friendly choices?

• Wrapping paper - whether you didn’t get all of your gifts wrapped in fabric or newspaper or are dealing with wrapping paper that family members used, look at what type of paper it is first. Many types of wrapping paper are not recyclable considering of foil, dying processes or tape stuck to it. So the options here are to smooth it out and save it for next year, smooth it out and add it to the kids art supplies (some red papers might build good Valentine’s Day cards), shred it and use it for packing material for mailing things, or whether you know someone who is moving soon, ask whether they could use it to wrap up breakables.
• Tissue Paper - that one is easy I think. Save the pieces that are not too crumpled and use them next year. whether they are all wadded up, flatten them out and
  use them to wrap up ornaments and other fragile Christmas decorations as you put them away. Or save some of it for the additional padding you use to fill out a gift bag whether you use those.
• Cardboard boxes - flatten them and recycle them, or whether they are shirt boxes like you get from a branch store, flatten them and add next to your wrapping supplies for next year.
• Gift bags- save them for next year of course!
• Christmas cards - save them for crafts or gift tags next year.

And of course there are now new toys and clothes to replace the old ones so construct certain you take anything still in good shape and donate it to charity. Let your kids help with all of it and explain why it’s fundamental to not just throw everything away.

The Day After Christmas Recycling Tips originally arised on Green Daily on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:59:00 EST 0.Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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[Source] Christina Clark

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