re: Environmental impact of Christmas

if only i could remember the wacky alt account that was on here a few years ago screaming about contrails

this reminded me of those

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Nothing wrong with a little microplastic in your brain baw

I like to think of it as seasoning

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I used to love it, favorite time of year when I had small kids.

But the commercial aspect gets draining after a while. My parents refused to celebrate it, we didnt have Christmas. I dont think I missed much.

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I used to love it

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my husband tries to make it very magical for the kids bc his parents were terrible and took the joy out of everything

Our youngest is 10, so I don’t think it’ll last much longer, but I will keep pretending

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Fake trees: More plastic. Too many of the green plastic needles end up in our storm drains and then waterways

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I can 10000% assure you that the fake plastic tree in our home, that will literally never leave the building or ever see the light of day, does not have any impact whatsoever on the environment.

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Fake garland / wreathes / trees:

Real Christmas trees:

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wait...wtf? Are you advocating for no trees?

Actually this can't be a real post, nvm. Good one you got me!

It still boggles my mind that we use plastic bags. Paper bags are made of a renewable resource, trees, and degrade in a matter of weeks.

The OP

I’m also not a fan of single use plastics, but the elephant in the room has nothing to do with Christmas.

Stores need to stop buying and providing plastic bags. They’re like tumbleweeds in any Walmart parking lot and will be around forever.

Go back to paper, and encourage people to bring re-useable bags with them to the grocery.

You forgot the impact of all those delivery trucks and cargo planes and ships and..

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Glitter: Shredded ‘micro’ plastic that gets everywhere and will be on earth longer than our headstones

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we’ll just sacrifice the gay pride parades to make sure Christmas glitter isn’t harmed.