Every year all families celebrate the most magical and long — awaited holiday-new year. Each country has its own special traditions of celebrating the new year. 

But the common thing is that people, regardless of race and nationality, do not spare money to celebrate this holiday in a big way. 

Money is spent on the purchase of a Christmas tree and a variety of decorations for the house. Bought a huge amount of food for the holiday table. It is mandatory to buy gifts. And in many families is considered a good tone for the new year to update it is still suitable for use furniture, dishes, clothes, etc.

And after the holiday in some countries it is customary to burn the Christmas decorations. For example, in Japan. And not all of the food is eaten, some of the products are spoiled and thrown away. 

How to make the celebration of the new year more environmentally friendly? I will help You deal with this question!

It is known that about 40% of food in the world is regularly thrown out, and the new year acts as a catalyst for this disaster.

Plan your new year's menu in advance and make all purchases at once, not in parts. So you not only save money and time, but also produce less garbage. 

Try to plan the menu of the new year's table so that you can use mainly local products. 

Cook less perishable dishes, replace them with those that are frozen.

Use extra products to prepare new dishes.

The main attribute of a new year celebration is a festive fir-tree, and many of us are tormented by a question what to choose - artificial or natural?

I believe that" live " spruce is much more environmentally friendly than plastic. After all, in the production and transportation of artificial wood in the air gets a lot of harmful substances. Low-quality plastic trees may become unsuitable for the next new year, and even in the case of long service products, plastic will be long to decompose in landfills. 

Much less consequences for nature will be from the use of natural spruce. You can buy a felled tree, but it is best to do it in specialized places: at Christmas markets, in shops where you can provide documents for trees. After the holidays, spruce can give a second life: pass for recycling or turn into a piece of furniture.

Even more environmentally friendly to dress up a living Christmas tree growing in the yard, buy a Christmas tree in a pot and then transplant it to the suburban area or make a "tree" from scrap materials. 

The most important thing in the new year holidays is, of course, emotions and impressions. Much brighter and adults, and small will remember the process of making Christmas toys with their own hands, and not buying in the store. And please don't abuse the holiday lights! Save natural resources! 

Spend the new year without harm to the planet!

To be continued.