Xmas – Paul Noël

Candles, gifts, resource use and pollution

Candles are a popular gift at Christmas time and at other times of the year but do we stop to consider any of the potential negative aspects. What negative aspects?

Well there’s health for a start. How can you be sure that the candle you buy does not release toxins when it is burnt? Do you check or just assume that it’s OK?

Resource use. Remember there are 8,000,000,000 of us. The candles on the left of this photo are wrapped in plastic so what will happen to it? Th ones on the right are in glass so what becomes of the containers? Will they be used once and then thrown away or smashed up and recycled? Either way a one way journey and usage uses an awful lot of resources and energy. And what of tea lights either in plastic or metal. What happens to all that plastic or metal once they are used?

So do candles need to be wrapped in anything? It’s a question that must be addressed as part of the larger one in how we use the planet’s limited resources and energy in a sustainable way.

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Plastic baubles, Christmas flowers

What happens to the plastic baubles that are sold with the flowers at Christmas? Are they stuck in a cupboard? Are they thrown away? How do they degrade? Will they pollute the environment? We really need to change the way we do things.

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Celebrate a dying tree

We need to be finding spaces in our towns and cities where we can watch trees grow and decorate them year in and year out and not be decorating a dying tree, as seen here in the Place de la Palud, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Christmas or Capitalistismas? Pretty plastic whatever it is

Christmas or Capitalistismas? The Coop shopping centre in Morges, Switzerland. Most of what we see is very unnatural whether is be the materials used or the cultural appropriation by corporations intent on mass consumption whatever the deleterious effects are to Earth’s life support systems by that neoliberal consumerism.

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What looks Pretty is often Plastic and very Polluting

There have been several scientific and medical papers published this year that have identified nano and micro plastic particles being found in our blood, lungs and even in the placenta of women having just given birth. The long term effects of ingesting these plastic particles is not yet fully understood but could have long term health implications for many of us, as it’s not just about the plastic particles but what other toxins and organisms that can hitch a ride with them into our bodies. So look beyond the visually pleasing and consider what you buy this Christmas.