The County Council ran a competition asking residents for their top tips on how to be environmentally friendly at Christmas. Suggestions included:
- use old cards to make paper chains to hang
- make your own crackers out of the cardboard tube from old loo rolls, and
- make your own Christmas gift sacks from plain pillow cases that you can decorate and use year after year.
The competition was organised to encourage people to think about recycling. The first fifty entrants won Christmas decorations made from recycled materials.
Councillor Matthew Lock, Lead Member for Transport and Environment said, “There are a lot of creative ideas here. It is encouraging that people in East Sussex are thinking about the environment and looking for ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.”
We have received 70 pledges over the Christmas period. There is now an ongoing pledge page: make a pledge to reduce, reuse, recycle.
If you want to make a promise to do something to reduce your rubbish please make a pledge and send it to:
Waste Management
County Hall
St. Anne’s Crescent
Lewes BN7 1UE
Email rethinkrubbish@eastsussex.gov.uk
Notes to editors
Other suggestions included:
- buy rechargeable batteries or gifts that run off mains electric it not only saves money in the long run but no batteries to throw away
- use last years Christmas cards to make labels for presents
- reuse wrapping paper from Christmas presents or tear it up into little bits and put in the garden composter
- reuse old envelopes and packing to resend letters and parcels
- compost the branches of your tree, and shred the rest to use as a garden mulch
- make gift labels made of old Christmas cards. A funky look and excellent for the environment.
- Christmas is about giving. Sort out unwanted clothes, toys, books, CD's and DVD's and pass them on to charity shops; local children's nurseries; doctor surgeries waiting rooms or someone you know who could use them.
- buy gifts made from recycled materials
- give your used Christmas stamps to charities.
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