Many people are worried about the amount of waste caused by Christmas celebrations. This year some people have said they are worried about Christmas decorations.
Traditionally families in the UK would reuse their decorations year after year. On Jan. 6 families would carefully wrap and store their decorations. They would be put away until the following year.
However, over the last few years people have started following Christmas fashions. Each year different colors are in fashion. Last year fashionable ornaments were silver, this year they are antique gold and platinum.
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Stuart Bond of the WWF says that if a decoration is looked after it could last 30 to 50 years. Instead people are throwing them away each year. This causes problems with unnecessary garbage. Plus lots of energy is wasted making new decorations each year.
A popular store to buy Christmas decorations in the UK is Woolworths.
They have some good news. Woolworths still gets letters from customers saying they are using decorations they bought 15 years ago.(STAFF WRITER, WITH DPA)
許多人擔心耶誕節所帶來的垃圾量，今年有些人則說，他們憂心耶誕節的裝飾品。
傳統上，英國家庭每年都會重複使用他們的耶誕飾品，到了一月六日這天，他們會妥善地包裝並收起這些飾品，直到下個耶誕節再拿出來。
然而，過去幾年來人們開始趕耶誕流行，每年都流行不一樣的顏色，去年流行銀色的飾品，今年則流行復古金色和白金色。
世界自然基金會的史都華．龐德表示，飾品若妥善保存可以使用三十到五十年。相反地，人們每年都用過即丟，製造多餘的垃圾；每年製造新飾品也浪費許多能源。
在英國，Woolworths是個大家喜歡去購買耶誕節飾品的地方。
Woolworths有一些好消息，他們收到顧客來信說，他們到現在都還在用十五年前買的裝飾品。
（德通社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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