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November 14, 2019

A present for the earth? How to cut holiday waste

By KATHERINE ROTH
Associated Press

While the holiday season is a time of giving and thoughtfulness, it can also be a time of excess and waste.

Americans throw away 25 percent more trash than usual between Thanksgiving and New Year's — about a million extra tons of garbage each week, according to the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group devoted to helping people to be more environmentally responsible.


 
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