KILLJOY bin bosses want put an end to Christmas crackers and wrapping paper because they're damaging to the environment.
Barmy business chiefs reckon families should “use their imagination” instead of buying traditional festive favourites.
The scrooges want to ban the selling of Christmas crackers to cut plastic rubbish.
Waste management chiefs say the Christmas dinner regulars, as well as wrapping paper, napkins and tablecloths are wrecking the environment.
They claim most of the 40 million crackers bought every year are thrown out within minutes.
Now, bosses at Business Waste want people to make their own using loo rolls and toilet paper.
Spokesman Mark Hall said Christmas creates more plastic waste than any other time, with most of it going to land fill or an incinerator.
He said: “The scale of unnecessary waste is appalling.
'UNNECESSARY AND APPALLING'
“When you think what goes into a Christmas cracker – the plastic toy, the snap, the shiny paper hat, the ribbons – millions are pulled and immediately binned every Christmas Day.
“It’s madness”
It comes after weeks of protests across London by climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion.
Its eco-warriors have demanded that the Government declares a climate emergency.
They want politicians to take urgent action on climate change and wildlife declines.
In particular, the activists want the UK to reduce its carbon emissions to "zero by 2025" and do more to "remove the excess of atmospheric greenhouse gases".
CLIMATE CAMPAIGNERS
On April 15, the environment "rebels" launched a range of attention-grabbing tactics to gain headlines, and prompt politicians into taking action to "avoid irreversible climate change and ecological collapse".
The activists brought parts of busy London to a standstill with widespread demonstrations.
They blocked busy routes around Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Parliament Square and Waterloo Bridge.
The group has warned that 400 activists could sue the Metropolitan Police after they won a legal challenge over a London-wide protest ban.
Police imposed a ban across the capital last month after the eco-warrior's Autumn Uprising action saw more than 1,800 climate change activists get arrested over a fortnight.
The ban was implemented under made under Section 14 of the Public Order Act at 9pm on October 14 and it and lasted until 6pm on October 18.
During that time more than 400 activists were arrested.
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