How can you cut down your waste this Christmas?

Do you buy an outfit every year to wear on Christmas Day?

How about this for a statistic – if everyone wore a pre-loved outfit on Christmas Day this year, the Co2 emissions saved would be the equivalent of taking 56 million cars off the road for a day.

Here's some more eye-opening statistics on the amount of waste we create at Christmas:

• The waste generated at Christmas goes up by 30% compared to the waste created during the rest of the year
• Over one in seven British consumers buy more food than they need
• The amount of Christmas plastic packaging that was placed in the general waste bin instead of the recycling bin in 2018 was estimated at 114,000 tonnes
• During the Christmas season, the amount of wrapping paper thrown away if laid end to end would equal 384,400 kilometres or 238,855 miles
• 160,000 tonnes of Christmas trees are dumped each January
• Every year, the UK citizens spend £700 million on unwanted gifts
• It is estimated that turkey cooking generates 14,056 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide in the UK

Makes one think! How can you lessen your impact on waste this Christmas, in this area and in others?

Plastic Free Axminster wishes you a lovely, contented and, of course, sustainable Christmas!

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