Christmas
• You can always purchase an artificial tree that can be reused for many years, ranging from 10 pounds to over 100 pounds. Our looks really real!
• If you have a real tree, pay the Woodland Trust or any other organization, to acquire a plant in its place!
Christmas Decorations
• If you are evergreen shrubs and trees - in order to ensure that an annual supply of eco-friendly Christmas decorations, why notsome of your cuts just before Christmas and use the bits of choice for interiors? If you do not have any evergreens but have a garden ask for some 'of these plants as Christmas presents. It can still grow a couple of years, but then all you have to do is harvest in December and be creative as desired.
• Make a homemade crown with branches from your garden, or someone else cut.
• Purchase handmade furniture made from recycled materials or environmentally friendly materials. Ifpossible, through fair trade and, since they are a good way to help are vulnerable. While some of these boats is not made from recycled materials, which they desperately needed income for people in need.
• Ivy is good to drape around pictures, windows, and the base of Christmas trees, hiding the wires of the tree is lit. It is, as far as I know, not replacing the electric lights, but like the last few years and use very little energy, their impact is relatively small,look great.
• One of the advantages of using natural decorations is that after Christmas do not need to enter the trash heap in your garden get normal compost.
Christmas decorations
• Make homemade ornaments painted off () pinecones, painted eggshells, crushed (colored) aluminum foil, paper chains, paper snowflakes, old CDs and more!
• Decorate a doll as an angel.
• Use a search online for recyclingtree ornaments or homemade for a variety of ideas or to purchase decorations for the tree recycled or environmentally friendly if they can not be bothered to do it.
Gifts
• Buy a subscription for an organization to make the world a better place to make the RSPB, RSPCA or Oxfam.
• If you buy a present that with the batteries to ensure that the person I am for the purchase to buy a charger and rechargeable batteries.
• Buy a gift homemade bin bird table, compost. ChocolateCakes often go down very well!
Wrapping paper
• Collect extra photocopies or are no longer necessary documents from work for your children back to throw.
• Colored pictures of your kids staining pounds.
• Using surplus pieces of fabric or wallpaper.
• Use recycled paper.
• Enter the gift of another gift, like a decorative tin, nice wooden box, etc.
• Do not use wrapping paper, gift bags and gift boxes, ribbons and bows last Christmas orprevious celebrations. Leave the tags blank gifts he gives, so that they can be reused.
Greeting Cards & Gift Tags
• Send an e-card.
• Create a greeting card or tag paper, fabric or wallpaper.
• Make cards or tags from pieces of food.
Packaging
• Use as packing foam or bubble wrap.
• Crush newspapers into balls loose. It 'a cheap, easy and fast! This is our preferred method forBox filler.
After the new year
• Know where you can recycle your real Christmas tree or Christmas cards, local councils and supermarkets are a good start. That will turn your trees into fertilizer for use in parks and gardens.
• Do not use wrapping paper, which are no longer reusable for shelf or ships CRAFT projects.
• Save boxes, gift bags, wrapping, filler, ribbons and bows for gift packages or future projects CRAFT. Treating yourselfFriends, neighbors, etc. if you think too much.