With sustainability becoming a bigger factor in everyday consumer habits, many of us want to stretch this way of shopping to the festive period, too. The holiday is notoriously surrounded by single-use plastic, wasteful packaging and binned food (its estimated over 4 million Christmas dinners are thrown away each year in the UK alone), but a 2018 survey found that 72 per cent of the 2,000 respondents were keen to reduce their plastic waste output at Christmas.
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Oh dear. I don’t know why I did this, rashly, the evening of 29 February. Leap Day. I took a leap. Maybe because I have a completion date on the vicarage looming and I need help, someone to share it with, and who is willing to change light bulbs*, heave boxes and dog-sit. Cook.