The amount of ribbon used every Christmas could tie a bow around our planet. The amount of packaging recycled at Christmas is greater than any other time of the year.
Design your own gift-wrap by using old paper bags, brown paper, comic books, cellophane, tissue paper, Sunday Supplements, magazines, posters etc. Add decorations such as old buttons, drawings, bows, stamped patterns, pictures cut from magazines, a small posy of dried flowers or other natural things such as wheat, seedpods or pinecones. If you do use shop bought wrapping paper, buy the kind with recycled content. I was told a tip recently that suggested that we cook up popcorn to use as a protective filler for fragile packages when they are sent through the post instead of polystyrene. It would be all right for local deliveries but might the presents might get confiscated at customs in some countries!
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