A green Christmas, with recycling and energy saving lights

The holiday season is just around the corner, and everyone’s making plans for that jolly good time of the year again, Christmas. Well, besides all the celebrations and festivities, this time of the year has its toll on the environment, and here’s just what you can do to keep it green this Christmas. Well to start off with, you can recycle all that gift wrapping you usually tear out, too eager to look what’s inside. Reusing 2 feet of ribbon by every family could help save up 38,000 miles of ribbon, enough to tie a bow around the planet. Also, this might seem a bit out of the Christmas spirit, but buying an artificial tree just once, instead of having to bring a live one every year could help save some green. That’s not all. You can also opt for low energy lights to string up, instead of the old one’s you’ve been using that suck in juice.

So, get the LEDs, gift-wrap and artificial Christmas trees this season, and help make a change, giving the Christmas spirit a green touch.
[nationalgeographic]