Sustainable gift shopping: How to do it during COVID-19 pandemic
The holiday season has garnered a reputation as the most wonderful time of the year — and the most wasteful. Families cook excess food, buy boxes of gifts in plastic packaging to be ripped apart and thrown away, ship goods across the country and load up on single-use wrapping papers and ribbons, all of which contribute to our carbon footprint and the mounting piles of waste in our landfills. This year, as people social distance to protect themselves from the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, much of that waste may come from online shopping. Amazon saw its business surge this ye...
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