Is the Easter Bunny Environmentally Conscious?

While preparing for Easter this past weekend I marvelled at the mountains of plastic eggs and plastic grass in a rainbow of colors, overflowing from the "seasonal aisles" of every major supermarket. The amount of plastic was truly staggering and while many will reuse the eggs and yes even the grass, year after year, I wondered how many more would see their eggs and grass end up in the landfill still decomposing 10 or 20 Easter celebrations from now.

That led me to my question "is the Easter Bunny environmentally conscious ?" At first glance as evidenced above, it would seem absolutely not, however we fail to do him justice by pinning our quest for convenience, lack of imagination and the low cost of a plastic Easter, firmly on his floppy little ears.

The Easter Bunny has always used a basket, made from natural materials such as straw, reeds or cloth to carry his eggs, real ones laid by hens! that he takes great pleasure in hiding so children can enjoy the fresh, pollution free air, while searching and gathering as many eggs as they can. Once found the eggs are stripped of their colored shells, which are placed in a compost bin, and eaten with not an errant candy wrapper in sight.

One wonders if the Easter Bunny would have the will to continue were he forced to make the switch to plastic and exactly how would we explain that to our children?. Thankfully we have a choice and I believe his choice is sustainability and responsibility. The evidence clearly shows that the Easter Bunny is environmentally conscious and next Easter I for one look forward to joining him in saying NO to a plastic Easter and YES to an all natural one.