Like most folk festivals, Christmas and New Year are a serious burden on the ecosystem. So, what do you need to meet the eco-friendly New Year?
Do I need a tree?

If you can not imagine a New Year holiday without a Christmas tree, but still want the holiday to be eco-friendly, consider the following options.
If you have a spruce or pine tree growing in the yard-dress it up. Let pleases the eye with its charm and freshness. In addition to dance in the meadows near a spruce in the yard much nicer than in the house.
If you decide to buy a real forest beauty, then buy it at licensed Christmas markets. Trees grown in specially organized nurseries are sold there, which means that the wild forest does not suffer. After the holidays, the tree must be handed over for processing, it will subsequently produce paper, cardboard, cellulose fiber, wood chips or vegetable substrate... a Good example of waste-free production in action.
If your choice is artificial spruce, then avoid polyvinyl chloride. It's toxic plastic. Its production is harmful to the environment. And one more minus: PVC (PVC) shall not be accepted for recycling from individuals. In stores IKEA you can purchase PET from eating. Scientists have come up with a wonderful way to recycle this base using bacteria species Ideonellasakaiensis 201-F6 to the original components.
You can also make a Christmas tree with your own hands from eco-friendly materials.
Eco decorations: Christmas decor in eco-style

The second question: what to decorate the Christmas tree? In fashion craft, handmade and maximum nature!

Give preference to Christmas toys made of environmentally friendly materials: cardboard or cotton wool, as in Soviet times, natural fabrics, glass... and since hand-made is very appreciated, and there are many master classes on the Internet, you can gather the whole family and make toys with your own hands. Decorations for Christmas trees can even be edible: useful candies, dried fruits, cookies. So, by the way, originally and dressed up Christmas trees. In Japan, the Christmas tree is decorated with edible rice balls. There is a belief: you need to eat as many balls as you are old, so that your life in the new year was successful and happy.
If you use lights, garlands or other battery-powered devices in the interior decoration, then replace disposable power sources with reusable rechargeable ones that can be charged in the charger from the mains. You can take ordinary batteries to specialized collection points.
If you want romance and candles, the perfect option will be candles made of beeswax or soy wax. Do not wear in the house articles of wax, since the combustion vapours fill the space and harm the health.

Eco parks for the New Year

• And what to give? Give impressions, not things! It can be not only services, but also the implementation of your creative ideas. New Year is a great occasion to feel like a magician and start working miracles.
  Video greeting of loved ones, pre-recorded and mounted or just a video postcard
  Dance or song of your own performance
  Themed dinner

• Natural soap, prepared by you manually with festive additives (cinnamon and orange, etc.)
  Poems to order or own composition

• Jam of own preparation of "new year's" taste (tangerine, for example)

• Homemade cake / ginger cookies with wishes

• Homemade mulled wine

• Handmade chocolate

• Loose tea / coffee elite varieties

Organic oils and other products with eco-certifications.

And the first rule – do not forget about the separate collection of garbage after the January weekend and protect the nature of the remaining 364 days of the year!

Sources: https://green-club.su/10-pravil-econovogo-goda/

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