5 Facts About Christmas Waste
Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, American household waste increases by more than 25 percent.” – EPA
5 Facts About Christmas Waste
“Trash cans full of holiday food waste, shopping bags, bows and ribbons, packaging, and wrapping paper contribute an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills.” – EPA
5 Facts About Christmas Waste
“Artificial trees contain non-biodegradable plastics and possible metal toxins such as lead.” – National Christmas Tree Association
5 Facts About Christmas Waste
“Wrapping paper is often dyed, laminated and/or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver coloured shapes, glitter, plastics etc which cannot be recycled.” – Recycle Now
5 Facts About Christmas Waste
“If every American family wrapped just 3 presents in reused materials, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields.” – Stanford via Use Less Stuff