Use cloth for wrapping and ribbons - they can be used over and over again.
When using paper, buy 100% recycled products.
For super large gifts, ditch wrapping and just add a bow.
Go au natural and use flowers, leaves and twigs for ‘trimmings’.
Be creative and frugal at the same by using old maps or newspaper for gift [...]

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Alternative Fibers
Tree-free paper is available made from a variety of substances, including flax and linen, tobacco leaf, agricultural stalks and straws, bamboo, coffee-bean residue, esparto grass, seaweed, bagasse (leftover sugarcane stalks), old money, old clothing and ground junk-mail. These fibers also can be combined with paper made from wood pulp and recycled even further. Currently, [...]

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Recycled Paper is made from waste paper pulp instead of virgin wood pulp. There are several kinds of “waste” used: Post-Consumer and Post-Industrial are two.
% Post-Consumer Waste (PCW): this is the paper that has been manufactured or printed on for a specific purpose and is eventually returned to recycling centers. From an environmentally friendly point [...]

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