 Green Tip:
How to Green Your Halloween!
Halloween is great time for young and old to express their creative selves through costume, and enjoy tasty treats!
Here are some tips on how to celebrate this Halloween and stay green:
1. Host a Halloween Costume Exchange
Did you know that there is a National Costume Swap Day? It is the second Saturday of October every year. This year that falls on Saturday, October 9, 2010. For information on how to find a swap or start your own, click here.
2. Create a Costume from Recycyled or Reused Materials
You would be amazed by the amount of information found on the web by doing a simple search. Some of our favorite web sites include:
3. Use Reusable Bags or Containers for Collecting Treats
Make sure to use durable, reusable bags. They won't rip and spill treats and they can be used year after year. This saves you money and keeps plastic or paper bags out of landfills.
Just in case you didn't know plastic bags were bad, bad, bad:
Americans use more than 380 million plastic bags and more than 10 million paper bags every year. Plastic bags end up as litter, kill thousands of marine mammals annually, and break down slowly into small particles that continue to pollute soil and water. During production, plastic bags require millions of gallons of fossil fuels that could be used for fuel and heating; paper bag production consumes more than 14 million trees annually in the U.S.
Source: http://environment.about.com/od/greenhalloween/ss/green_halloween.htm
4. Give Green Treats
You can accomplish this by purchasing treats that use very little packaging, buying from local health food/organic groceries or give environmentally-friendly, non-candy treats (we like: http://www.stubbypencilstudio.com).
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