Following last weekends "Black Friday" sales I am compelled to discuss the most wasteful holiday of the year... Christmas!!! Christmas's message of love and kindness has been overshadowed by overindulgence and greed. Individuals nation wide rise at ungodly hours to stand in line and buy cartloads of items that they most likely do not need. And all because prices are drastically slashed. Can someone say MATERIALISTIC!
Take some time and think of all the waste that is produced during the holiday season... it's frightening really. Besides the fact that most of the presents we give and receive are unneeded. We place each present in a box that we then wrap in pretty papers or shove into gift bags. In a matter of seconds these presents are ripped open and the festive papers are instantly discarded. In the height of all this Christmas excitement, wrapping paper finds it's way to the trash can, not the recycling bin.
This year my family and I will be incorporating as many ecological practices as we can into the Christmas season. The idea began when I vowed to buy only green gifts. We have also decided collectively to bypass holiday wrapping paper. Instead we will be wrapping all of our presents with outdated newspapers and recycled material.
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