In our case with a local Christmas tree from Freising, bought at Odeonsplatz – the person who’s selling them is also the farmer who grows them! He’s in the business for 40 years – and we transported the tree to our home in our Nihola cargo bike. Bee wax candles (to avoid paraffin wax), glass „Weihnachtskugeln“ which are reused every year, glass/crystal, straw stars, a few wooden things. Below the presents – all wrapped in re-usable Christmas paper bags or cardboard/metal boxes(which we got and collected over the past years) and some items are wrapped in fabrics or self-made bags made out of fabrics. We managed to down-size the number of presents in the past years and keep it now stable. Not an easy task nowadays…. ( The Story of Stuff Project …): Reduce ….
The tree will stay in our room until Jan 6th, and afterwards all the decorations and paper bags, boxes will be stored for next year
We will cut the tree then and use it as protective layer for our flowers on our balconies: Re-use …
and then it’ll end up in the brown Biomülltonne after March/April to be processed as „Münchner Blumenerde“: Re-cyle …

PS: As for the days which are missing in my „eco Adventskalender“ due to „no-time-for-FB“, I may still add a few posts in the upcoming days.