This is something I had written in a previous blog a while ago, but it is fitting for this Christmas holiday season. Remember what the Clean Air Council had mentioned about paper waste?
In the U.S., an additional 5 million tons of waste is generated during the holidays. Four million tons of this is wrapping paper and shopping bags.
Among friends, family, even though it is nice to have gifts wrapped, think about not wrapping some of your gifts and remembering what positive effect this will have on the environment. Otherwise, how about using banana paper? Normally, banana wrapping paper is made from the thrown away stalks of the banana tree. It saves trees.
Peaceful Valley sells 100% recycled gift wrapping paper as well as banana gift wrapping paper and notecards printed with soyink and embedded with wildflowers so you can plant your good wishes after the holiday season and watch something beautiful grow (did you see the pics at the top of this blog?) – all with great designs for the holidays. Please check them out.
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wow !
this is really a nice way to use the waste papers,
By: Bubble Wrap on December 25, 2007
at 2:58 am
That’s an incredible waste! Another 21st century option is virtual gift-wrapping. It may not save on all the packaging, but it helps. If you send a purely virtual gift however, it completely eliminates both wrapping paper waster and packaging. The only site on the web I’ve seen where this is available is Planetwrapper.com
By: Steve on September 8, 2008
at 4:02 pm