Top Tips for a Sustainable Easter

We all love to celebrate Easter and indulge our loved ones with gifts of chocolate and other Easter treats. It’s a wonderful time for family and friends but it can get expensive and wasteful. You can create your own Easter gifts and treats for a fraction of the cost, and by making considered choices about the consumables that we do buy, we can reduce the impact on our wallets and the Earth.

1.     Get Crafty

Skip the plastic eggs and baskets - Instead consider making an Easter basket out of old boxes and recycled materials from around the home.  BONUS: This is a great holiday activity for the kids to get crafty.

2.     Go Natural

Use natural dye and make real, coloured eggs. Fresh, free-range eggs are available at the Woodend Farmers Market on Saturday. Grab some along with spinach, beetroot, onions, turmeric and red cabbage and make your own natural dyes. BONUS: Yummy hard-boiled eggs for snacks.

3.     Reduce Landfill

We all love chocolate eggs at Easter time, just try to avoid buying individually wrapped candy. Most of that foil on our eggs ends up in landfill. A recent study revealed that over 3,000 tons of chocolate Easter egg packaging is generated each year.

4.     Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

Recycle your Easter egg foil. It’s 100% recyclable so why wouldn’t you?