Since you probably don’t want your friends and family believing that you are giving them boxes of diapers or cereal, you’ll need to wrap or bag the gifts. According to the Carnegie Mellon Green Practices initiative, "If every American family wrapped just three presents in reused materials, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields." If you wish to wrap the gifts, you can use old advertisements and newspapers. I personally prefer the advertisements since many have a glossy finish and are more colorful.
By choosing to reuse other materials for gift wrap, you save yourself a little cash. Additionally you reduce the amount of paper that is being consumed, the fuel needed to ship the gift wrap to the store, and all of the other resources that are used to make the gift wrap, cardboard roll, and plastic film cover. And who could forget, it is so thoughtful of nearby stores to send me free wrapping paper.
Or be creative and find alternatives to wrapping gifts such as knitting a DVD cover or reusing that carpet that was recently removed.
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| Gift box made from leftover lumber. The covering is salvaged carpet that was approximately 30 years old. |
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