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The idea of buying wrapping paper, wrapping gifts in it, opening the gifts, and throwing the wrapping paper out drives me crazy - it’s just so wasteful. During the winter holidays, 4 million tons of wrapping paper and shopping bags are thrown away. So, last year we started using fabric gift bags (see Green Gift Bags and the picture at right) and this year we added Furoshiki gift wrapping. Furoshiki is the Japanese tradition of wrapping gifts in beautiful swaths of cloth – that you can reuse rather than throw away. In addition to using fabric for wrapping gifts this year, I also cut the tags [...]
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 My friend Doris had the best idea at Christmas time; she made sewn gift bags to hold all the presents she was giving.
The bags are not difficult to make, don’t take much fabric, and are re-usable year after year. I thought the idea was terrific; and it could be used for gift giving any time of year. So, I’m saving the ones I received, will add more through the year, and hope to accumulate enough so I won’t need to buy wrapping paper or paper gift bags in the future. If all the friends and relatives were to use them, [...]
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 This year as we’re scrambling to find new and unusual gifts for those that have it all, I hit on the brilliant idea (well I thought it was good) of gifting a few of the green items we’ve found over the past year to encourage eco-friendliness. Each of these gifts can help replace plastic throwaways, reduce oil consumption, and save landfill space – how cool is that?
The first is the nice reusable shopping bags at Envrirosax. They describe them as follows:
Envirosax® designer reusable bags are spreading the eco-friendly message with style! Chic, inexpensive and compact, Envirosax® eco-friendly shopping bags carry the [...]
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 Last year, it took an estimated 12 million barrels of oil to make the 88 billion plastic bags consumed in the US ($80/barrel x 12 million = $960,000,000 sent to foreigners for oil). After learning this, I committed that we would start taking reusable shopping bags to the store (see 11 Ways to Save in 2010). Since its Earth Day tomorrow, it seems like a good time to share what we’ve found to replace the throwaway plastic bags:
Shopping Bags
I found some nice reusable shopping bags at Envrirosax. They describe them as follows:
Envirosax® designer reusable bags are spreading the eco-friendly message with [...]
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