Reduce your Holiday Trash
In the United States, we throw away 25% more trash during the holidays than during any other part of the year. All the ribbons, wrapping paper, and plastic bows ultimately end up in landfill or oceans and that threatens wildlife. We can do better.
If you were to wrap only three of your gifts this year in reusable wrapping, the paper saved could cover 45,000 football fields!
There are many alternatives for wrapping paper: fabric scraps (for all of you that quilt or sew), scarves you no longer love, tea towels. With some scrap fabric, just a few simple folds and a simple knot you can create a one-of-a-kind wrapped gift.
How to wrap Christmas gifts: https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/how-to-wrap-christmas-gifts. These use “furoshiki” fabric, but you can use any fabric scraps you have.
Make a grocery bag (can be used for any small odd shaped gift): https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/make-a-grocery-bag.
Use this lunch bag out of fabric to wrap a baked gift: https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/make-a-lunch-bag.
Give the gift of books or a laptop and create a fabric carrier as the wrapping: https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/create-a-laptop-carrier.
Paper shopping bags can be decorated and reused as wrapping paper. Use crayons (great project for kids) or paste on cut-up old Christmas cards to decorate the shopping bag/wrapping paper.
Plain paper bags can be folded over at the top, make holes across the top with a hole punch and weave yarn through the holes to close.
Use the comic section of the newspaper to wrap a child’s gift; or just the black and white pages for someone older.
Wrap a gift in an old map.
Use old men’s ties for ribbon. Or cut strips from an old t-shirt, pull to stretch so the edges curl and tie on your packages instead of ribbon.
Skip the ribbon altogether and use crayons to draw ribbon and bows on your gift.
Decorate your gifts by tying candy canes or springs of greenery, flowers or herbs on your gifts with yarn.
Let’s wrap up this holiday season with re-usable materials and keep the football fields for the players.
Tri County Wildlife Care, a local nonprofit started in 1994, is dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of our native wildlife and helping our community live in balance with wildlife. They envision a world where wildlife and people thrive together. For more information call (209) 283-3245, or visit pawspartners.org.
If you were to wrap only three of your gifts this year in reusable wrapping, the paper saved could cover 45,000 football fields!
There are many alternatives for wrapping paper: fabric scraps (for all of you that quilt or sew), scarves you no longer love, tea towels. With some scrap fabric, just a few simple folds and a simple knot you can create a one-of-a-kind wrapped gift.
How to wrap Christmas gifts: https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/how-to-wrap-christmas-gifts. These use “furoshiki” fabric, but you can use any fabric scraps you have.
Make a grocery bag (can be used for any small odd shaped gift): https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/make-a-grocery-bag.
Use this lunch bag out of fabric to wrap a baked gift: https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/make-a-lunch-bag.
Give the gift of books or a laptop and create a fabric carrier as the wrapping: https://wrappr.com/blogs/how-to/create-a-laptop-carrier.
Paper shopping bags can be decorated and reused as wrapping paper. Use crayons (great project for kids) or paste on cut-up old Christmas cards to decorate the shopping bag/wrapping paper.
Plain paper bags can be folded over at the top, make holes across the top with a hole punch and weave yarn through the holes to close.
Use the comic section of the newspaper to wrap a child’s gift; or just the black and white pages for someone older.
Wrap a gift in an old map.
Use old men’s ties for ribbon. Or cut strips from an old t-shirt, pull to stretch so the edges curl and tie on your packages instead of ribbon.
Skip the ribbon altogether and use crayons to draw ribbon and bows on your gift.
Decorate your gifts by tying candy canes or springs of greenery, flowers or herbs on your gifts with yarn.
Let’s wrap up this holiday season with re-usable materials and keep the football fields for the players.
Tri County Wildlife Care, a local nonprofit started in 1994, is dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of our native wildlife and helping our community live in balance with wildlife. They envision a world where wildlife and people thrive together. For more information call (209) 283-3245, or visit pawspartners.org.
