Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Store Bought Wrapping Paper

This list of eco-friendly alternatives to store bought wrapping paper, give you a lot of variation in ways you can wrap a gift. Store bought wrapping paper is not always easily recyclable. It has to be manufactured and only has limited purpose. Some of the store bought wrapping papers are made of combinations of materials, which can't be separated easily to recycle. Some of these types of eco- friendly wrapping paper are both precycling and recycling.

*Newspaper

Keep the comic sections from your daily and Sunday papers. They make a fun eco-friendly gift wrap. They can be brightened up with the addition of some ribbon, or a fabric or twine tie. Even the black and white newspaper pages work fine. Then the ribbon can be reused. The newspaper will have gotten a second round of use. Then make sure you put it in the newspaper recycling bin after it has been used as wrapping paper.

*Scraps Of Fabric.

For anybody who does sewing, there are always pieces of left over fabric. Larger pieces can be used by themselves. Smaller pieces could be stitched together like a crazy quilt, then used as an eco-friendly alternative to store bought wrapping paper. Another nice thing about using scraps of fabric is, you don't have to use tape to hold it. Just use recyclable ribbon. Another option is to buy seasonal, or occasion appropriate fabric and use it over and over. Christmas and birthday patterns are examples of this. Look in the scrap sale piles or end of bolt pieces, at fabric stores, to get good prices on it.

*Fabric Ribbons

Buy fabric ribbons, or save any you get. After they are used, put them in a bin to pull from for future gifts. That way when you need ribbons to put around the wrapping paper, you have an eco-friendly alternative to throw away ribbon.

*Children's Drawings