How to have an eco-friendly Christmas: 39 tips for hosting a 'green Christmas' Credit: Getty Whilst Christmas is bound to look very different this year, the festive countdown is officially on. Cue the turkey, advent calendars and Christmas crackers. But our much-loved celebrations are costing us more than we realise, with experts linking festive mass consumption to long-term environmental damage in previous years. It’s estimated that an extra 30 per cent of rubbish is produced and discarded during the festive period, which amounts to around three million tonnes of waste. But how do we go about doing better, without saying goodbye to all that festive magic?