Go Green for Christmas!

THE South Somerset charity Carymoor Environmental Trust has been inspiring families to have a green Christmas this year.

The charity has been running Christmas craft sessions showing how to use natural and reused materials to make festive decorations. Local families have been keen to pick up imaginative new ideas to put a slightly greener slant on their Christmas preparations.

Education manager Beth Coleman said: “Christmas tends to be a time when we buy more and produce more waste but these sessions give some fun ideas to use what’s around us.

''We’ve been making a range of things from Christmas wreaths and table decorations, made from materials taken from our nature reserve, through to reindeers made from teasels and reused fabric from old clothes.''

Christmas is a time when we all produce a lot more waste. According to the Recycle Now campaign if all the wrapping paper used at Christmas in the UK was laid end to end it would measure 364,700km - enough to travel to the moon and back!
 
Beth added: “Using natural and reused materials to make decorations can be very rewarding and has the added benefit of being free! Much of what we make can be used again next year or composted when it’s no longer needed. It can also help to reduce the waste that we all produce at Christmas.”
 
Carymoor is an environmental education charity and encourages people to adopt more sustainable lifestyles. The charity leases 100 acres of capped landfill from Viridor, the landfill site operator, and has transformed the site into a nature reserve rich in species and wildlife.

The Carymoor Environmental Trust is an environmental education and nature conservation charity, based next to the landfill site at Dimmer, near Castle Cary. Registered charity number 1089668.

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