Holiday Cards

A Little Note About Notes

Holiday cards are a great way to send a warm greeting from afar, but imagine how many people are on your holiday card list. Now, imagine how many people are on their lists. This adds up to a lot of paper waste after the holidays.

Some Tips:

• Consider e-cards.
• Create an online slide show to send out to your friends and family.
• Be creative. Use old holiday cards and junk mail to make fun Christmas cards.
• If you do go with a card, buy or print cards on recycled paper that can also be recycled.
• Buy cards on plantable paper. That’s right! It’s seed embedded paper you can actually plant in the soil to sprout wildflowers.

The 2.65 billion Christmas cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high. If we all buy one card less, we’d save 50,000 cubic yards of paper.