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Landfills swell with 25% more junk during the holiday season. Here are some ways to trim that excess.
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Landfills swell with 25% more junk during the holiday season. Here are some ways to trim that excess.
Broadcast History
Broadcast on Air America Radio as part of the national program EcoTalk, 3 Dec 05
Transcript
To most us, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year?s are best known as the Holiday Season. Friends and family gather, feasts are shared, and gifts exchanged. It?s also often stressful. Travel, debt, and entertaining take their toll. There is also an environmental cost. Perhaps we should call it the Spend and Waste Season. Wrapping paper and thrown-out foods flood the landfills like no other time of the year. But there are ways to keep the same holiday spirit, reduce stresses of all kinds, and prevent an enormous amount of holiday waste. Kicking the Holiday Junkie Habit, today on BioSphere.
In the U.S. we throw away 25% more trash during the Holiday Season than any other time of year. Sale catalogs, shopping bags, giftwrapping, decorations, and leftover food increase trash flow by 1 million tons per week. More than two and a half billion Winter Holiday Greeting cards are sold ever...
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Timing and Cues
Host intro: And now a little information on how to kick the holiday junk habit and reduce waste going to our landfills during this holiday season, here's Shana Weber from Air America Radio in San Francisco.
Musical Works
Title: Throw the Window Open, Walking at Night
Artist: Malcolm Dalglish and the Ooolites
Album: Hymnody of Earth
Label: Ooolitic Music, BMI, 1997
Length: 8 sec
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