My Only Christmas gift… The Waste that is never

It is natural that on Christmas season we expect something to come. Most likely it is wrapped in a Christmas wrapper, right? Though we do not know what it is and who will give us. That’s also the nice thing in Christmas things almost always put into surprises. Have you received what you expect? Did you receive an unexpected gift during Christmas?

The kind of gift to be shared during Christmas varied. I mean it differs in the status of the people. Rich people will receive or give expensive gift/s while poor individuals will receive the otherwise or vice versa sometimes. However, there are gifts that neither expensive nor cheap but valuable. These gifts cannot be wrapped with a Christmas wrapper or any other kind of wrapper. This is the gift that I had during Christmas. What is it? Just continue reading.

Christmas vacation is something very interesting and enjoyable. It is part of the tradition especially for Filipinos to have break for students, employees, etc. in order to spend much time with the families. And in the family several activities would be generated for the family has come together again. There may be exchanging gifts, “videoke’s, and Christmas parties”. But whatever it is the question is what my gift was?

My gift was only one; an idea that eventually changes the way I look at plastic wrappers. I got an idea of recycling plastics. It was an accident because I never thought about it. I think that was a heaven-sent idea that let me make a way to help the environment. Collecting plastics especially those from junk foods wrapper and cut them out, put in a plastic cover usually thick plastic to make a kind of foam. This idea actually is not new. I learned this during my high school days because we are taught about it but the thing is I utilized it to help the environment. So at that moment I gave an assignment to my younger brothers and sisters to collect plastic wrappers to make something like foam. This activity may be hassle or naïve for other people but this thing is really great. Working on this has many advantages. The plastic wrappers which to be thrown will be utilized in the very simple manner. And in this sense we are saving our time in many ways for trash collectors, scavengers, etc. We are also saving the resources for recycling. And the most important is we are saving our environment from other activities using the same resources.

We are thinking that after eating those kind of foods the plastics has no use at all. We are wrong. The wastes that we think like plastic wrappers are never waste actually. Wastes are supposed to be thrown because they are useless. Hey this is not.

So what was my Christmas gift?