5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste. Guess who. Consider making 2011 the year you really help turn that around.

When you have finished eating all your chocolates and cookies, keep the tins and reuse them as storage containers.

Save and reuse cards that you recieve as gift tags for next year.

Take any unwanted gifts to a Goodwill location or list them on sites like eBay or Craigslist.

Don’t throw your wrapping paper in the garbage or fireplace.  More than 8,000 tons of wrapping paper will be used on presents, using the equivalent of 50,000 trees. Reuse or recycle it!

Recycle your beverage containers, including bottles from wine and plastic egg nog containers.

Out of every $10 spent on store purchases, $1 (10%)goes for packaging that is thrown away.

Try the elegant touch; use cloth table napkins instead of paper.

If every house on the US turned down therastats just 2 degrees, we’d save enough energy to heat 20,000 homes for a day.

Did you know? One disposable coffee cup per day creates 23 pounds of waste per year?