Easter Bling

Easter may not be the most eco-friendly holiday but you may be able to lighten the eco-footprint caused by bags of plastic, wrappers, paper and packaging. Collect and reuse as much plastic as possible. Plastic eggs, baskets and plastic grass can be re-used year after year. Leftover raw eggs can be eaten or used as simple at-home beauty treatments. For example, as face mask made from a combination of egg, honey and olive oil helps to soften skin and tighten pores. Everything you save for next year or put into the recycling chain saves a few resources for next year.

Easter is the second most important (after Halloween) candy-eating occasion for Americans, who consumed 7 billion pounds of candy in 2001, according to the National Confectioner's Association. Ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each year and everyday throughout the year, 5 million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter. That's alot of sugar and a lot of packaging. Go easy on the chocolate Easter bunnies because one Cadbury Solid Milk Chocolate Easter Bunny has 890 calories and 97 grams of sugar while one Reese's Reester Bunny packs 798 calories and 42 grams of fat!