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.