Holidays brings the shoppers and wasters in all of us. EPA estimates that food watse, shopping bags, packaging gift wrap, and ribbons will increase household garbage by 25%. This means we will send an additional 1 million tons of trash a week to landfills.
Have fun discovering new ways to make your gift look good without needless waste. Gift decorating is a great way to be creative.
- Creative substitutes for wrapping paper include decorated paper bags, scarves, tins, baskets, bags, old maps and calendars, used blueprint paper, or just a nice bow. Specifically selected sections of the newspaper also make fun wrapping paper.
- Keep gift boxes and bags that you receive and use them to present a gift to someone else. Wrapping paper and bows can be treated the same way.
