One Bag Of Trash And A Parchridge In A Pear Tree

Until this year, our Christmas's ended quite the same way, with an overflowing trash bin on the curb with piles and piles of trash bags around it, filled with paper and ribbons and bows. Next to that is a mountain of cardboard boxes stacked as high as the car.

Not this year.

This year, we are including our Christmas waste in our Recycling Program!

It turned out easier to do and we got a better result than I could have ever imagined!

As we unwrapped, instead of just piling everything into 1 gigantic, stretched, almost-ready-to-blow trash bag, we split our wrappings into 2. One for paper and one for plastic (from the toy packaging) and any boxes get broken down.
It took an extra 5 minutes after we were finished to break the boxes down, however seperating the wrapping from teh plastics was just as fast.

The result?
2 bags of trash in our trash bin and a few boxes broken down, laying nicely next to the trash can. We were the only house on the block who didn't look like a gigantic wrapping factory blew up in our driveway.

What can I say! It's kind of cool!