Say goodbye to glitter, tinsel, shiny wrapping paper?
Even as whales starve because of the plastic they have consumed and landfills swell beyond all reason, one age-old holiday tradition that has been hard to shake is the habit of excess.
Wrapping paper is penitential: a slurry of brown, linen and hemp and embellished with cinnamon sticks, eucalyptus leaves and other twiggy items.“There will be moral judgments on what’s under the tree this year for sure,” said Marian Salzman, a trend spotter, author and early public-relations promoter of Giving Tuesday, which retailers have sometimes turned into a shopping boondoggle that conflates consumption with charitable donations.
Think comestible and compostable, as Antonia Pitica does, when you trim your tree and adorn your table. Pitica, 28, is an owner of Eco Roots, a company in Aspen, Colorado, that sells objects like bamboo toothbrushes and rose-gold razor handles, and she is an enthusiastic promoter of dried citrus as a decorative garnish.
“As for holiday decorating, I still typically do it with the mindset of upcycling, but I look to materials that have more value. Maybe it’s less single-use plastic and more things that have a chip in them.” The Amazon box, this year’s scourge, is good for “snowy city landscapes” — cut them out and paint everything white, Abousteit said — or slice up old Kleenex boxes, as she does.
Churchill usually buys houseplants to use as Christmas trees, though she said she has reached maximum capacity in her Brooklyn, New York, apartment and this year may employ her rubber plant. “It’s gotten pretty big,” she said. “It might just be its time.” The Aluminum Specialty Co. in Maniowic, Wisconsin, made between 3 million and 5 million trees before ceasing production in about 1971, said Joe Kapler, lead curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society, which shows off its collection of Evergleams in an exhibition each holiday season.
David Stark, a brand experience designer in New York whose clients include Target, “Saturday Night Live” and Uniqlo, is particularly skilled in low- or zero-waste productions. “If you’re going to throw stuff away, or not store it to repurpose for another event,” he said, “what would it be like if the stuff told a story and then had a life after you used it?”
The annual holiday party he and his husband, Stephen Henderson, throw, with a guest count that hovers around 800, is a good place to search for sustainable decorating tips.
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