11 Ways to Reduce your Holiday Carbon Footprint

The winter season is sprinkled with holidays, celebrations, gifts and delicious foods. It can also be wasteful. According to the EPA, household waste in the U.S. increases 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, totaling about 1 million extra tons of waste. What can people concerned about their environmental footprint do to make seasonal celebrations more sustainable?

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Citation for this content: MPH@GW, the online MPH program from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University