10 easy ways to green Thanksgiving
Adding just one of these suggestions to your holiday celebration can make a difference.
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- Serve at least one local food. Root vegetables and gourds are in season right now so make your mashed potatoes, your sweet potato casserole or your pumpkin pie from a local source.
- Starting today, save plastic containers and lids from things like sour cream to send home leftovers with your guests.
- If you’re going to someone else’s house and you know you’ll be sent home with leftovers, take your own reusable containers so your host doesn’t have to use Ziploc bags or other disposable items.
- Delete one item from your menu. There’s always too much food anyway, right?
- Car pool to dinner with someone close by.
- If you're hosting dinner, turn your thermostat down 2 degrees. The heat from the kitchen and your guests will help to warm your home.
- Serve local wine or beer or make them organic.
- Compost your food scraps.
- Don’t buy any new decorations. No one will notice. Really, they won’t.
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Enter your comments hereYou live in NJ and recommend Marcal? They are the biggest air and water polluter in New Jersey. The EPA has fined them billions. The harm they do to our environment is a disaster, yet they consider themselves green, What a joke. Take a dip in the river next to their plant if you are such a believer. I dare you.
Nick, I buy Marcal products all the time. Do you have any sources to share regarding your comment about them? I am interested and want to know more. I don't want to be buying so called eco-friendly products when their production methods are just the opposite !
I respectfully disagree about composting your food scraps -- why not make a rule of only putting what you'll actually consume on your plate and promptly portioning and freezing the leftovers?!? People in our country have to stop embracing the "wasteful mentality" and remember that FOOD is a precious resource, too.
By the way, I found some more good Thanksgiving tips (many of them "green") from this guide if anyone's interested: .... More
Yes, but some food scraps people don't normally consume- like the skin from the pumpkin used in the pumpkin pie or the potatoe peels. Those could be added to the compost pile instead of the garbage can!
