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If you were lucky enough to receive lots of Christmas Cards, then think about how you recycle them. Many supermarkets have started offering Christmas Card recycling schemes, which is a really easy way to recycle your cards. However, you can also cut up your Christmas cards to make your own gift tags!

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Merry Christmas to the readers of Daily Eco Tips! I hope you have a wonderful holiday!

To mark this festive day, here’s a Christmas-themed eco-tip. No doubt you’ll be having Christmas dinner today, probably more food than you’ll normally eat in a few days. However, what do you do with the leftovers? Don’t waste them! Here are a few ideas.

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If you want to find a use for an empty tissue box, here’s a simple idea that will help you get more use from it. Just use the issue box as a plastic bag dispenser!

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Have you got something at home you want to recycle, but have no idea how to recycle it? Have you got old coffee bags to recycle? Perhaps you have some old broken belts you want to reuse? How do I reuse old cork? These questions and more are answered at RecycleThis.co.uk.

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With all those plastic bags you end up with, if you want a really creative idea for reusing them, perhaps you might want to make your own sandle-like shoes by crocheting the plastic bags together.

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If you end up with a stack of business cards for whatever reason, there’s another way you can reuse them before you recycle them.

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Recycling is all well and good, but if you can reuse something, that’s even better. Rehased Clothes is a clever concept where people can exchange fashionable and attractive clothes with other like-minded individuals.

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You should already be an expert on plastic recycling symbols, but how good are you with packaging labels? Did you know that the green dot means nothing about recycling?

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Most people would be surprised to learn that the paper and printing industry ranks fourth among manufacturers in the amount of energy used. Producing paper and the electricity used for factory operations requires a massive amount of energy, and thus fossil fuels. Printers, thus, are major users of natural resources.

Certified Green Printers like Bacchus Press keep track of their total energy usage and implement strategies for offsetting the environmental impact of their businesses. The goal is to be a “sustainable printer.”

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Some plastics are easy to recycle, some are not. However, remembering which is which is hard work. I certainly don’t manage it. Therefore here’s a list of what those codes all mean.

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Junk mail is a really irritating problem. In the UK, we get swamped with flyers about cable and satellite TV packages, pizza, indian, chinese and other takeaway menus, extortionately expensive education packages promising to “double our income”, supermarket special offers, and more. Admittedly, sometimes these offers are useful, most of the time they end up in the recycling bin.

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If you want a great eco tip for your workplace, then take a look at these green office equipment and stationary suppliers.

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Although many councils and cities are getting better with their recycling of waste products, they’ve still got a long way to go when it comes to recycling plastics. The majority of plastics are still not recyclable yet. Given how many food products use plastic containers, that’s a hell of a lot of waste we’re still sending to landfill.

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Bottled water is several thousand times more expensive than bottled water (roughly 10000 times). Plastic bottles are harmful for the environment due to their inability to break down in a sensible time frame, not to mention the huge energy costs in production and shipping of water bottles. So why use bottled water? In most western countries, tap water quality is exceptionally high and there’s no real reason to use bottled water!

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It’s incredibly easy to lower your carbon footprint by minimizing your use of disposable plastic and paper bags. It’s true that paper bags consumer more energy than plastic ones. Both are bad for the environment, and both can be avoided. Many grocery stores have reusable bags for sale, many less than a few pounds.

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Precycling is preventing waste before it happens, i.e. you’re being proactive about how much waste you’re going to produce. By reducing, reusing and buying products carefully, your can minimize the amount of waste you create as well as conserving resources and saving money.

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Microwaveable ready-meals… right, where to start!? Ready-meal packaging is usually not recyclable, perhaps except the cardboard box or sleeve. The meals are poor in nutritional value due to the over-cooking and freezing process, lacking in essential vitamins, minerals and proteins. If you have a large appetite like me, the small portions will leave you snacking a few hours later. They contain too much sugar and salt to add flavour to the poor-tasting food in the packet, not forgetting all of the preservatives and additives. That enough yet?

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PolyVinyl Chloride or PVC is an incredibly common chemical used in building materials. Avoid it if at all possible. The material resist many wears such as sunlight, however this is the harmful impact it has on the environment. It takes years to degraded and therefore sits in our landfills.

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… and use a mug. It’s not much, but simply changing the way you have your morning coffee can have a real impact on the amount of waste you send to the landfill. It’s also carbon intensive to make styrofoam and paper cups.

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Recycling your old materials is only half the battle. However, it’s said that if you’re not buying recycled products, you’re not recycling. Most packaging is being created with some “post-consumer content” (recycled materials), but it can be as little as 1%.

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