This holiday season, the latest trend is wrapping your Christmas gifts in decorative Trader Joe's bags.
Of course, those who couldn't afford wrapping paper have for decades used newspapers and paper bags to conceal gifts ahead of the big day. In recent years, it's been lauded as a great green idea to help reduce the amount of waste going into landfills each year.
Most traditional holiday wrapping papers are actually not recyclable. Papers that contain foil, plastic coating, cellophane and glitter are not able to be recycled, per the American Forest and Paper Association, nor are ribbons or bows.Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year’s holiday period than any other time of year, according to National Environmental Education Foundation , a Washington, D.C.
If you're not willing to switch to paper bag wrapping paper, you could always go for recyclable wrapping paper or reusable fabric wrap.this holiday season include saving and re-using bows and gift bags, as well as ribbons on packages. As for Osgood, she says that with three children and seven grandchildren, she will probably try the Trader Joe's gift wrap challenege again next year.
"It depends on what the bag is!" she laughs to TODAY.com"But I probably will and the great thing about the bag is just like it doesn't say Trader Joe's all over it ... so it makes great paper.""I like all their ... their flyers, their signs in the store. Everything is so creative," she says."It's a fun place to go. So it makes sense that their bags would be fun also.
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