It’s that joyous season of gift-giving. Why not consider alternatives to typical store-bought gifts? Doing so will help reduce landfill waste as well as other forms of pollution. Here’s Wasteserv’s holiday list of ideas for less wasteful, more creative giving:

• Make dinner for someone or cook other homemade food and deliver it

• Make a video of family members, friends, and loved ones

• Offer your talents, such as photography, financial planning or hairstyling

• Make a book of family recipes

• Plant a tree in someone’s name. Contact Tree4U on 2295-2333 for further information

• Baby-sit or pet-sit.

• Give tickets to an art exhibition or museum

• Give a gift certificate to a book or music store

• Give a sports or health club membership.

• Give frequent-flyer miles

• Give an adventure or experience (a day of hiking or canoeing, for example)

• Give tickets to concerts, sporting events, shows, whale-watching trips, etc.

• Give a plant sprouted from one in your own garden

• Provide a gift certificate for a lesson (tennis, swimming, drumming, etc.)

• Create a photo album or have an old photo restored, enlarged and framed

• Weed, water, or help establish a friend’s garden