3 Ways to Make Your Thanksgiving Green

Thanksgiving marks that time of year where families come together to share in the spirit of the holiday season. With the chaos of preparing the perfect meal, coordinating holiday travel plans, and stressing over impressing your parents-in-law, it can be hard to find ways to be eco-friendly during the holidays.

Try these 3 easy tips for keeping your turkey dinner (or tofurkey dinner) green this year:

1. Bust out the china and cloth napkins. Sure, using paper plates and plastic utensils may reduce your clean-up time at the end of a long, filling meal, but they can have a huge impact on the environment. Using cloth napkins and china plates and silverware can reduce our wasteful use of trees each year. If you cannot avoid using disposables this holiday, opt for a sustainable disposables.
2. Reduce your thanksgiving waste. Each year Americans waste “an extra 5 million tons of household waste each year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s”. By encouraging guests to self-serve during your Thanksgiving Dinner, they control their portion size. This will allow for less unwanted food left on your guest’s plates once they have reached they turkey limit.
3. Put Tupperware on the “guest list.” Add a note to your Thanksgiving Dinner invitations this year reminding guests to bring their own reusable containers for any leftovers.

Don’t know what to do with all the Thanksgiving leftovers? Check out The Food Network online for the tastiest leftover recipes.

Have a great holiday!