Welcome 2020 the Eco-friendly way!🎆

I don't know how you celebrate the New Year, partying, seeing family, maybe even sleeping through it! Whatever you do, you're probably gonna end up throwing things away. Confetti, food, paper plates, napkins, etc. You may not, which is very good, and you may know where I'm going with this.

To throw an Eco friendly party (which you definitely should) you could:

• Make confetti from scrap paper 🎉 (newspaper, magazines you don't need, old wrapping paper!!)
• Make your own bunting from fabric you don't need (if you don't have any fabric, don't worry about this craft because if you go and buy fabric it's basically just buying the bunting anyway.)
• Buy high quality fairy lights (after the ones you had before definitely don't work anymore) which you can use in the years to come.

You should not buy balloons, glitter and glossy banners to decorate your house though because they are all usually non-recyclable.

If you are wanting to treat your guests with some food, to stay Eco friendly you can easily ask your guests to bring some homemade food themselves!👩‍🍳 To make it better, split people into different things (like dips, mains, deserts, salads etc.) so each person or family brings something different to everyone else and you don't have too much of a type of food. The guests can also bring their own dishes and pots to serve their food on, to take home afterwards.

If you are feeding people you will usually need to serve them with cutlery and napkins and things like that. But this is easy, don't buy things like straws, paper plates, plastic cutlery and napkins; just use the things you've got! If you don't have enough, once again ask a friend to bring some things over.🍽

The Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group (PCRRG) say that nearly three billion plastic cups are used in the UK each year, and only one in 25 will be recycled. Although recycling is getting better each year, still most of these cups will be going into landfill - enough to stretch around the would 5 and a half times, say campaigners. I don't know about you, but that sounds serious. However, you have to check with your local authorities about recycling, because you may not be able to recycle these cups. So, if you can't recycle them, don't buy them.

Thanks for taking your time to read this, and remember these tips I told you for throwing an Eco friendly party, they can be used for any type of party!! Hope you had a merry Christmas and are going to have a happy new year!!😁

Violet
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