Video: Have a Green Holiday!

From Thanksgiving to New Years Day, household waste increases by more than 25%. Added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons - it all adds up to an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills. (EPA and Use Less Stuff)

The 2.65 billion Christmas cards sold each year n the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high. If we each sent one card less, we'd save 50,000 cubic yards of paper. (Use Less Stuff) Consider sending an electronic card. Half of the paper America consumes is used to wrap and decorate consumer products. (The Recycler's Handbook)

Each year, 50 million Christmas trees are purchased in the U.S. (Cygnus Group). Of those, about 30 million go to the landfill. (Environmental News Network)

City of Largo will offer free Christmas tree recycling for Largo Solid Waste Customers from December 26-January 8 on your recycling day Please be sure to remove:-Ornaments-Tinsel-Lights-Stand-Place a decoration-free tree by the curb on your recycle day More helpful hints at www.LargoRecycles.com