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Have a Zero-Waste Party
Whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s or just because, you can always make your party a zero-waste fete. Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell, authors of Celebrate Green offer these guidelines for making any party waste-free.
1. Decorate the tree together with edible/compostable ornaments (like hardened gingerbread cookies) and popcorn or cranberry garlands.
2. Use edible and compostable decor for the home and table.
3. Use cloth napkins and tablecloth instead of paper products.
4. Use only reusable glass and tableware, or compostable products made from corn, potato or other.
5. Compost all food scraps and send leftovers home with guests in pre-saved, re-purposed glass jars.
6. Serve organic or biodynamic wine with real cork stoppers. Recycle the glass bottle and compost the stopper.
7. Give consumables, experiences, carbon offsets or donations to a cause as parting gifts.
8. Use e-invitations or plantable invitations (imbedded with seeds).
For more information or to subscribe at the introductory price of $10 a year, go to positivelygreen.com. Positively Green magazine launched in 2008 as a quarterly women’s magazine that covers every aspect of green from eco-friendly vacations to green fashion to green health. With articles that don’t just explain the problems, they outline solutions for busy people who want to make the change but don’t have the time to research solutions.
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Thank you for this interesting & very useful post :-)
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Great post--I wish more people would do this. Seriously, if we were able to do this for a formal wedding of 150, it could certainly be done for other events too. The biggest wastes I've seen have been at kids birthday parties (ten 3-year olds, 7 adults, 2-3 lawn-sized garbage bags even after I started a recycling box for the cans and water bottles).
I would also add
1. Use reusable cotton bags as gift bags/takeaway bags.
2. Revive the punchbowl for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks; larger bottles or even boxes of wine can be used (they've improved immensely over the years)
3. Rent dishware/glassware if you don't want to clean it yourself
4. Donate your used (clean) additional glassware to Goodwill (or similar) if you don't have storage space; they're also good places to pick up inexpensive goblets (under $1/piece, I've even picked them up for $.10-.20 each at Hospital charity shops)
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