It’s the season of parties, gifts and lots and lots of food. It’s also the season of buying more than we can use or eat, and then throwing it away. Household garbage tends to increase around 25 percent in the weeks between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
New York Times article:
While we often think of the world’s environmental problems as being primarily about the toll of fossil fuels on the climate, they are also about the burden created by the absolute tonnage of stuff we buy and consume — the packaging, the toys, the fast fashion, which are often made with petroleum byproducts, and moved around the world by burning fossil fuels. And that’s especially true of the holiday frenzy of presents and parties.
A remedy may be giving a concert ticket instead of a gadget.
- Kasia at the Cut is offering gifts of a life class art lesson for a friend