27 replies to this topic

[mariaandrea]

Recycled paper made without synthetic additives isn't the worst thing to have in a landfill, either. It decomposes. Think of newspaper that commonly gets used as mulch in a garden. Of course, confetti made with mylar or other synthetic materials is no good...

[MakingCents]

I'm sure the confetti is not the worst thing cleaned up after new years eve. Solo cups, aluminum cans, styrofoam because people are too cheap to buy a thermos. Those are the traditions that really need to stop.

[joeldgreat]

Its the same thing with lighting a firecracker. They both contributes to polluting our environment. Many do not know that the smoke these firecrackers create were dangerous to one's health too. If your not hurt by the blast, then surely your lungs will be affected by it.

[Green Thumb]

Every wonderful celebration is not without being responsible after. It’s like when you hold a party at home you clean up all the mess afterwards. Those who throw paper confetti should help out with the cleaning or at least, you know, give your city leaders an idea on where to put those collected confetti’s. It could definitely be recycled to another paper that they can use for flyers and posters in their candidacy but then that’s another weight for sweeping.

[Mon-Jes]

Oh, the mylar confetti--nice and glittery, but you can't do anything with it once it's on the ground if you decide to throw it around.

I have to side with stopping the confetti tradition. I know it will be sad to see it go, but that's just an insane amount of paper, even if it's recycled.

[kat74]

If they can recycle the same paper from each years confetti, then it would be green friendly tradition. But if every year more trees fall for you to go through that tradition, them may be the city should sit down and come up with a more conservative way to confetti.

[Runi1024]

Maybe they are using recycled paper. Or that could be a good suggestion for them. You also have to keep in mind what city we are talking about. New York is not known as the most environmentally conscious city in the world.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Runi1024, on 19 January 2012 - 03:07 AM, said:

Maybe they are using recycled paper. Or that could be a good suggestion for them. You also have to keep in mind what city we are talking about. New York is not known as the most environmentally conscious city in the world.

They may not be the greenest in the country, but considering the size of the popuation, they're doing better
than most.

"New York City is, to the surprise of many, one of the most energy-efficient places in the United States - the energy
consumption and carbon dioxide output of New Yorkers is one-quarter of the national average,
and the city is on target to meet a number of sustainability goals in the next 20 years, including planting
one million new trees (of which more than 300,000 have been planted in the last three years) and
converting an entire fleet of over 10,000 taxicabs to fuel-efficient vehicles and hybrids"
http://www.columbia....city-48283.html
The good and the bad noted here.
http://www.treehugge...nable-city.html

But granted, the waste of the paper (for this one time a year event) must stop.