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As you are wrapping up the holidays, you can make some environmentally friendly decisions for your waste. Between the lighting, gift shopping, wrapping and decorating there is sure to be a lot of waste this time of year. Undoubtedly there will be negative environmental impacts, but you can still take steps to ensure that unnecessary materials donât end up in a landfill. The following is a brief local guide to help you clean up after the holidays.
Trees, wreaths and greenery
The first Christmas Tree display in America was recorded in the 1830s by German settlers, according to History.com. Since then decorating a tree during the month of December has become a tradition for many families.
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December 18, 2020 at 5:11pm
Still haven’t decided on a real tree or a plastic tree as the holidays quickly approach us?
FIU Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Oscar Valverde-Barrantes makes the case for following the lead of so many others in 2020 and going natural.
“By purchasing a natural tree instead of an artificial tree, we are eliminating our carbon footprint,” Valverde-Barrantes said. “I believe even if you don’t recycle natural trees in the proper way, the trees still decompose and decay.”
Still on the fence? Maybe these reasons will help you go green in 2020 and other holiday seasons to come:
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By Candice Allouch
As presents begin to pile up over the holidays, so does cardboard and plastic packaging. This year in particular, when online shopping is essential to staying healthy, you may find yourself bursting at the seams with discarded packaging material.
Fear not! Many of these boxes and bags can be recycled. Here s how you can make sure your gifts make both people
and the planet happy.
Retailers use several different packaging materials and each of these is recycled slightly differently.
Paper-padded mailers and brown packing paper, for example, can be recycled like cardboard boxes. Bubble-lined plastic envelopes are accepted by most curbside recycling programs where plastic film is also accepted.