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1st appeared
19
December
2000
Recycling
Tips for the Holidays
The campus' Recycling Program
at this time each year offers advice for those interested in mixing
the spirit of conservation with the holiday spirit.
The program, sponsored
by Facilities Management, offers these tips:
- For gifts, consider
long-lasting and energy-saving ones, such as solar-powered calculators
and flashlights, insulated lunch bags, refillable pens, composting
bins, canvas shopping bags, and ceramic mugs.
- Also consider giving
books or magazines, which can be shared or recycled.
- Buy holiday cards printed
on recycled paper, or make your own from old cards.
- Put gifts in reusable
receptacles such as hatboxes, backpacks or canvas totebags.
- Wrap them in comics,
magazine paper, scarves, cloth napkins or fabric. Also try reusable
baskets and tins, or decorate grocery bags or butcher paper.
- Trim gifts with cotton
yarn, twine, shoelaces or fabric ribbon.
- When mailing presents,
use air-popped corn, newspaper or scrap paper.
- Make gift tags from
old cards. Don’t forget to save this year’s wrapping paper,
cards, calendars and packing materials for next year’s tags
and wrapping.
- Consider buying and
decorating a potted tree or plant, which can be used next year as
well.
- Make your own ornaments
from reusable or recyclable material.
Links:
Recycling
at UCSF
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