• Only buy what you really need and avoid unnecessary consumption
• Try to repair appliances instead of buying new ones straight away
• Pay attention to short production routes for your consumer goods
• Buy second-hand, refurbished or fair trade products
• Look out for seals that signal good standards - find out about the different seals
• Avoid returns

• Drink tap water instead of buying plastic bottles
• Use washable cloths instead of kitchen paper
• Collect rainwater for watering plants
• Use natural baths instead of swimming pools with chlorinated water
• Avoid strong chemical cleaning agents and detergents and use natural alternatives
• Put "no advertising" stickers on your letterbox

• Donate blood
• Stand up for social justice
• Go and vote
• Share rarely used tools and machines in the neighborhood (lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, large ladders, drills, etc.)

• Use wooden toothbrushes and cotton buds made of paper instead of plastic
• Use solid detergents, such as soap, shampoo or make-up remover
• Find out about menstrual cups and washable pads
• Use reusable pads to remove make-up
• Avoid cosmetics with the plastic components PE, PP, PA and PET
• Shave with shaving soap instead of shaving foam
• Avoid single-use packaging and plastic bags when shopping, use reusable packaging and cloth bags instead
• Buy fruit/vegetables without plastic packaging and milk/yoghurt in a jar
• Try out unpackaged stores
• Use bin liners made from corn starch for residual waste
• Use roasted coffee instead of coffee capsules

• Travel by train and public transport

• Send mail via climate-neutral shipping or switch to digital communication where possible

• Use alternative search engines such as Ecosia

• Place plants in your office

• Encourage the use of recycled toilet paper

• Try to avoid unnecessary printouts

• Discuss with the archive which documents can be used on recycled paper so that no important documents expire over the years

• Use sustainable wrapping paper

• Buy a plastic Christmas tree or make one from decorative materials

• Make Christmas decorations from sustainable materials

• Give more intangible gifts (e.g. time or experiences)

• Buy your gifts from fair trade stores

• Use fewer Christmas lights or switch to LEDs

The gift sponsor campaign

In cooperation with the district and family center Dornholzhausen and the Louisen Arkaden, a gift sponsorship campaign is taking place again this year. As junior employees of the city administration, we are happy to support this particularly nice campaign and give it a special touch. We would like to include the topic of sustainability in the campaign.

The Gift Sponsor Campaign enables socially disadvantaged children to make a wish for Christmas through the various Bad Homburg institutions. These wishes will be hung on the Christmas tree in the Louisen Arkaden during the campaign period (23.11. - 09.12.). At the sales hut, one or more wishes can be purchased and a child's Christmas wish fulfilled.
The wish is chosen individually, you only pay the costs.
We take care of the procurement and packaging. The gifts will be handed over on a separate date and will be taken care of by the SFZ Dornholzhausen before Christmas.

But what does this have to do with sustainability?

During the campaign period, we will be focusing more on the topic of sustainability and will be happy to provide a few tips along the way. And as Christmas is just around the corner, we are also happy to provide tips on sustainable gift-giving.

"Simply save energy". Together with the Department for Climate Protection, Environment and Mobility, the project group published a regular internal newsletter with information, tips and tricks on the subject of saving energy. Each newsletter focused on a specific action, e.g. how energy can be saved in the respective month. This focus on one topic meant that the project group was able to work intensively on one topic in order to find new tips and tricks for the employees of the municipal group.

"Click instead of print - sustainable for Bad Homburg". The junior staff of the 2021 recruitment year have been planning and implementing this project together since they started at the orientation days. The overall result consisted of the creation of a survey and a video shoot with our mayor Dr. Oliver Jedynak. The aim of this survey was not only to take stock of current measures, but also to identify whether there is a need for further action. In this way, sustainability in the city of Bad Homburg should also be promoted in the future.