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With holiday cheer comes holiday waste. Here's how to reduce yours
Plain paper is a very recyclable wrapping for presents.
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With all that holiday cheer comes a lot more trash. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has estimated that Americans throw away about 25% more trash between Thanksgiving and New Years.
Why it matters: Our society continues to have a big problem with waste. Despite policy efforts to reduce waste, the volume of what we throw away continues to increase.
How to reduce your waste:
- Make sure to put food waste in the green bin, according to your city or county’s rules, so it can be composted or turned into fuel, instead of decomposing in a landfill where it releases methane, a planet-heating greenhouse gas.
- Cardboard boxes and wrapping paper without glitter or that metallic sheen can be recycled, along with the tape. Bows and ribbons can’t, but you can reuse them next year.
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