"Doing away with wrapping paper and upcycling discards: How some families are reducing waste this Christmas
SINGAPORE: Ms Sheri Goh has a big family. She has an elder sister and 13 cousins just on her mother’s side. She and her cousins have 12 children among them. This means that Christmas can be a big, messy and wasteful affair.
To make gift-giving more manageable, the family has worked out a strategy. Each child gets three gifts.
That’s still a huge number of presents with a huge amount of wrapping. Every year, I’ve noticed, we fill two to three garbage bags of wrapping waste,” the 43-year-old told CNA.
Things will be a little different this year.
On the suggestion of a cousin, the family is doing away with the wrapping of gifts. If they must, they are to use newspaper or waste paper. Ms Goh, an editor with a religious publication, will use junk mail she started collecting a few months ago as wrapping paper."
A great start really: the realisation that perhaps there is no need 4 any fancy packaging 4 Xmas presents or any presents at any other so-called "special festival or day or whatever the modern marketers created"!!
I hv an crazier n bolder idea though it will knock economy growth down, by how much i m not sure but it will definitely go down: start responsible consumption! Buy only what u really needs n not what u want! Also u can get the 2nd hand stuffs that r still wearable or usable or even consumable!!
I can already see some folks recoiling in horrors n cried: "OMG! This will kill growth which will lead to retrenchment n shuttling of many businesses, especially those non-life sustaining type like: fashion, cosmetics, luxurious items, etc.
It also means the death of industrial designers, marketers (who create demands!!), etc.
What would biz do if consumers become very rational n stop over indulgence!?!?
The world of ecommerce as we know it hv to b changed totally!
Reduce is no. 1. Repurpose no. 2. Reuse no. 3 n then no. 4 is recycle!!
Is the world ready 4 such an order??
Blessed mankind!
SINGAPORE: Ms Sheri Goh has a big family. She has an elder sister and 13 cousins just on her mother’s side. She and her cousins have 12 children among them. This means that Christmas can be a big, messy and wasteful affair.
To make gift-giving more manageable, the family has worked out a strategy. Each child gets three gifts.
That’s still a huge number of presents with a huge amount of wrapping. Every year, I’ve noticed, we fill two to three garbage bags of wrapping waste,” the 43-year-old told CNA.
Things will be a little different this year.
On the suggestion of a cousin, the family is doing away with the wrapping of gifts. If they must, they are to use newspaper or waste paper. Ms Goh, an editor with a religious publication, will use junk mail she started collecting a few months ago as wrapping paper."
A great start really: the realisation that perhaps there is no need 4 any fancy packaging 4 Xmas presents or any presents at any other so-called "special festival or day or whatever the modern marketers created"!!
I hv an crazier n bolder idea though it will knock economy growth down, by how much i m not sure but it will definitely go down: start responsible consumption! Buy only what u really needs n not what u want! Also u can get the 2nd hand stuffs that r still wearable or usable or even consumable!!
I can already see some folks recoiling in horrors n cried: "OMG! This will kill growth which will lead to retrenchment n shuttling of many businesses, especially those non-life sustaining type like: fashion, cosmetics, luxurious items, etc.
It also means the death of industrial designers, marketers (who create demands!!), etc.
What would biz do if consumers become very rational n stop over indulgence!?!?
The world of ecommerce as we know it hv to b changed totally!
Reduce is no. 1. Repurpose no. 2. Reuse no. 3 n then no. 4 is recycle!!
Is the world ready 4 such an order??
Blessed mankind!
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