Gift Wrapping Gone Green
Have you done all
of your holiday shopping?
If so, it's time to
think about gift wrapping. This year, consider this:
In the US, the
annual trash from gift wrap and shopping bags totals over 4 million tons. If
everyone wrapped just three gifts in reused paper or fabric gift bags, it would
save enough paper to cover 45,000 hockey rinks.
Here are some green
tips to keep in mind before you give your friends and loved ones their gifts.
1. Use environmentally friendly
wrapping paper
Choose
wrapping paper made using fibers such as hemp, or paper using recycled content.
