Gift Wrap Alternatives

Make your gift stand out as one of a kind!

• Place Gift in Reusable Shopping Bags!
• Create your own gift wrapping paper by using colorful magazine ads (from magazines you have lying around), newspaper sections, and last year’s calendar to make your own personal collage. You can also use your old linens in fun ways-vintage clothes make quite an appealing look to any gift!
• Reuse wrapping paper and other fun materials you may have gotten on other gifts
• Wrap your gift in a reclaimed subway map!
• For gardening gifts, place all items in a water bucket or pot
• Wrap gift in recycled paper made with soy-based inks
• Fair Trade gift bags
• Wrap a wine bottle in an old sweater sleeve!
• Enhance your gift wrap-tape on a CFL (but leave it in its packaging)
• For food : Bring your host a home-cooked dish in reusable containers!
• Biodegradable Cellulose Tape