Just One Thing: Green Your Holiday Decorations
Save a tree! Use recycled material to make your holiday decorations.
Dec. 2, 2010 — -- More than 30 million Christmas trees and other greenery end up in landfills after the holidays every year.
That's according to the Environmental News Network.
In addition to trees, paper and boxes – from all those gifts you're going to unwrap – contribute to all that extra material that ends up in landfills. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says household waste grows by 25 percent during the holiday season.
There is a way to reduce that waste. Take the items you may have intended to toss into the trash and turn them into holiday decorations!
Chassie Post, lifestyle editor of Gilt Groupe appeared on "Good Morning America" today to demonstrate how you can use your holiday waste as decorations.
If you'd like to make wreaths from newspaper, Christmas bulbs or recycled soda cans, or if you think a soda can Christmas tree would be cool, make them using the following directions from Gilt Groupe, a lifestyle website:
Newspaper Star Wreath
You'll need a wreath form, newspaper, scissors and push pins. Post said they decorated a wreath with German stars. You can use this wreathe over your mantle, on your front door or just use the stars for their own ornaments.
Insert two points of one star into the gap between the two points of another star.
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