They’re dreaming of a green Christmas — with every card they don’t write and every gift they don’t wrap. Last year, she gave her married son a homemade coupon for locally raised organic beef and chicken; the year before, it was a basket of organic non-perishable foods. She re-uses homemade gift bows from year to year and packs goodies in reusable baskets. Wash dishes and silverware — coated paper plates and plastic servingware can’t be recycled. Recyclers get their biggest winter boon from the last week of December and the first two weeks of January — but it’s also when they get the highest volume of unwanted trash in curbside recycling bins. read more

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