Tips For a Green New Year’s Eve

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It’s hard sometimes to come up with ideas to green traditional things that we do every year and New Year’s Eve is not exception. You can try buying organic food and liquor and using eco-friendly dishes but that is the kind of thing you do every day (or you should be trying to at least).

New Year’s Eve is a special night, so it seems like you should do something out of the ordinary. But what precisely?

• Make your own confetti to toss at midnight. You can use colorful paper from your recycling bin and run it through your shredder or have the kids cut it up into little bits.
• Use public transportation to go out or energize those coming to you to carpool or use public transportation. It’s not a night to be out driving around anyway.
• Turn down the thermostat whether you’re having a party and let all those guests keep your house warm.
• If you like to wear New Year’s party hats and use noisemakers, buy some you can
  keep and reuse year after year.
• Instead of using bamboo dishes or dishes made of corn that will biodegrade more quickly, ask guests to bring dishes or ask someone whether you can borrow their real dishes. next all you have to do is wash them and they can be reused by and by again.

whether you aren’t into parties, use the evening to do something good for the environment. Sew cloth napkins your family can use, double check on what can be recycled in your town and construct certain you aren’t throwing things into the recycling bin that can’t be recycled locally. Or, break out the games and have fun with your family. Starting the new year off spending quality moment together is never a poor concept.

[Via PlanetGreen]

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[Source] Christina Clark