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How does going green for Christmas impact your health? Its easy to connect the dots when you understand a simple fact: personal health and planetary health are one and the same.
Reducing our waste stream improves our health because there really is no “away”. What I mean by that is when you throw something “away” it either ends up in a landfill leaching toxic chemicals into groundwater and sending methane into the atmosphere- methane is 20+ times worse than CO2 when it comes to climate change.
If your community incinerates its waste, all of the things you throw “away” end up in the air you breathe. Where I live, this is the case. The EPA and the American Lung Association give my county’s air quality low grades. I’m sure the fact that over 200 tons of garbage are being burned every day of the year has something to do with that.
Here’s a thought provoking video on the waste produced by Christmas.
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