I come from a family that saved every ribbon and bow from Christmas morning and reused any wrapping paper fragments large enough to use again. I try to reuse, and this year I decided to try to be a little more eco-friendly when doing my holiday gift wrapping.
Here are a few low-waste alternatives:
Paper Gift Bags – You can use these many times and they make wrapping so much easier.
Fabric Wrap – use scraps of old fabric, a scarf you don’t need anymore, or even old shirt and fashion it into a bag that can be used over and over again.
Magazine Pages - for a smaller gift, use some colorful pages of a magazine.
Reusable Produce Bags - I’ve been giving most people on my list gifts wrapped in Be Mindful Reuseable Produce Bags this year. It's a bag that can be reused all year long!
Gift wrap is big business and since most of it is not recyclable, it ends up in the trash. So if you have’t purchased wrapping paper this year, don’t! Skip the wrapping paper and think of more sustainable gift wrap ideas for the Holidays.