Have you lately been thinking of taking some step towards going green? But couldn’t do anything due to unforeseen circumstances? Well, you do have a choice to go green with your Christmas celebrations. How is that? Here are ideas on how to go green this year.
Most houses these days do not have live trees for Christmas. Reason one is that it is very expensive. Reason two is that, they aren’t many trees left in this world, thanks to the paper industry and land lust of people. Reason three is maintenance. But if you do not mind any of these reasons, you should go in for a live tree.
Live trees are thought to be costly, but that is not necessarily true. There are farms which grow these trees in bulk and you can get them pretty cheap. These trees tend to be quite huge, like 15 feet or more. An ordinary artificial Christmas tree is around 7 to 10 ft.
Next come the lights and the Christmas tree decoration. Recycling is the best way to sustain. That is what nature does. But until the advent of plastics, it was easily said and done. Still, we can do our bit, can’t we? Use recycled old ornaments. Make something out of the broken knick knacks and use them as snazzy and unique decorations. This will let the creative juices flowing.
Recycle old Christmas cards, ribbons, broken ornaments, wooden ornaments, glass ornaments, etc to create new kind of decorations out of them. You will save yourself the burden of buying new sets and will be recycling the otherwise useless clutter of broken bits and pieces.
The lights are harmless, but just see to that you use cooler lights such as the LED lights. The regular lights are warmer and contribute to unwanted global warming, though at a very tiny level. Energy saving lights are far more efficient and will make a very good choice for saving yourself from a bulky electricity bill.
If you have the habit of lighting up fire crackers, don’t do it this year. You are just creating a gas chamber out of the otherwise lovely nature. If you do find smokeless crackers, that might be a good option to light up things.
Try to replace your non biodegradable items with biodegradable items. This includes the tree, ornaments, wreaths, mistletoe and anything fake that you might have been using all these years. If you cannot find a replacement, just forego it for once. It might be a good step towards becoming green for good.
Try all these steps mentioned and go green with live Christmas trees and recycled ornaments.
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