The holiday season is the time of year when Americans increase the amount of trash we throw away each week by 25%.
Tips to Give More and Waste Less
- Give your time. Offer to clean someone’s house, watch their children, help plant their garden or run their errands.
- Give your talents. Offer, for example, your talent at organizing closets, your landscaping skills or music lessons.
- Give entertainment... tickets to movies, plays, musical events, a botanical garden or museum.
- Give homemade. Bake cookies or candies. Sew or crochet a gift. Make something unique and useful.
- Give to a greater good. Make a charitable donation in someone’s name. Donate slightly used toys, decorations, sports equipment, books and furniture to a non-profit organization instead of throwing them away.
- Give a gift that keeps on giving... a battery charger, rain barrel, bird feeder or book (a field guide makes a great gift for people of any age)!
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