Live Your Halloween Greener! (see how)
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Ten tips for an earth-friendly holiday
Consumers are expected to spend $3.12 billion on candy, costumes and other Halloween goodies this year, according to a survey conducted by BIGresearch for the National Retail Federation. That’s a big pile of candy corn. It’s also a lot of crumpled candy wrappers, paper party props and plastic political masks in the trash the very next day. So this Halloween, why not think green?
Putting together a green Halloween is as easy as an orange and black one. Here are a few tips to get you started:
1. E-mail party invites rather than snail-mail them. Free e-mail greetings abound online. “Talking” and/or “dancing” ghosts, ghouls, mummies and more are there for the taking at cyber card shops postcards.org/postcards, greetingsdepot.com and e-cards.com. The best pumpkin card patch this year has to be castlemountains.com, which features 96 animated cards, some with short plots or story lines. Witches on brooms warn revelers not to drink and drive. Party invites come with electronic pumpkin pi
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