So, it’s almost Christmas. You just have to run out and get some colorful paper, some ribbon, those cute little name tags and some tape to wrap everything up, right?
Graphic from http://winnipeg.ca/
So your gifts will look pretty under the tree…until an hour later, when you haul all of those paper wrappings out to the trash. Merry Christmas, Trash Heap!
Tell the Earth Merry Christmas at the same time as celebrating your loved ones… by PRE-cycling. What’s precycling, and what does it have to do with giving gifts? Read about it on HowToConsign.com . Don’t create The Nightmare After Christmas. There’s better ways to present gifts than using dye-heavy paper, made of trees and chemicals and shipped around the world only to be regulated to the garbage within minutes.
Happy waste-less gift-giving to you, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren!
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
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Oh that picture is so sad…people dumped all that trash right on that beautiful landscape?? Sickening!!
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