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Gift Giving: By the Numbers

25 percent: Increase in the trash generated during the holiday season.
86 percent: TreeHugger readers who say their kids have too much stuff.
97 percent: Of restaurant gift certificate receivers who say they would like to receive a restaurant gift certificate again.
83,000,000: Square meters of gift wrap which winds up on the U.K. rubbish heaps after the holiday season.
$300 million: Dollars spent in the U.S. on mass market women’s bath gift sets.

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