**Collaborative Post**
Christmas is a magical time of year – but it can also be an incredibly wasteful one, with £700 million spent yearly on unwanted Christmas gifts, and an astonishing £42 million worth of gifts going straight to landfill. So how can you consciously engage with Christmas in a less wasteful way?
The first port of call could well be the stocking fillers. Once the realm of plastic toys and single-use packaging, stocking fillers are seeing a sustainable revolution; great-value sacks and stockings like those available from Card Factory can be re-used again and again, and there is a wide array of practical gifts with which we can fill them, and reduce our wasteful consumption all at once. Here are just five ideas for practical stocking fillers this year.