Waste Free Merry Christmas
This holiday season you can give a gift to nature as well, by wrapping your gifts in reusable fabric gift bags. Just have a look below to see how amazing Bag-alls fabric gift bags look under the tree!
In this post we also want to inspire you to give some alternative, more nature friendly gifts. So keep on reading!
Once the gift opening is done you can just fold them flat and put them in your linnen closet until next time there is a celebration in your family.
Wrapping holiday presents for in traditional wrapping paper creates a lot of trash. Gifts wrapped in paper may look good sitting under your tree for a few days, but within seconds of being opened, the garbage bags quickly fill up. Gift wrapping is one of the most wasteful parts of the holiday season, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
SUSTAINABLE GIFTS
Here’s a few ideas:
1. food or drink gifts
This is definitely one of my favorites! How happy are you to receive a bottle of wine, coffee, your favorite food, home made cookies, jams or many other things that are so much better than the store-bought equivalent.
2. Experiences
Some of the best gifts are experiences such as a hiking, tickets to a concert, picnic, a weekend away, dinner. These gifts will remain as memories for years to come!
3. Make your own gift
Home made gifts are a unique, meaningful, special, and sustainable idea. Can you sew, paint or bake?
4. zero-waste gifts
Choose shops selling products using natural and sustainable materials. Bag-all has ideas such as Tote bags, travel bottles, natural cosmetics, natural fabrics, bamboo toothbrush, etc.
5. Donations
Bag-all giving a donation in someones honor can be an extremely thoughtful gift! You can choose products and put the monogram. every monogram purchased, we plant tree. Bag-all has planted over 6000 trees this year.
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Another organization Bag-all supports is Kiva.org which gives micro loans to entrepreneurs all over the world. Bag-all has given over 300 loans over the years.
6. Second hand gifts
Second hand can still be a wonderful option and is much better for the environment.
things to do to try and reduce waste at Christmas
1. Wrap your gifts in alternative materials such as a tea towel, a beautiful scarf, a left over piece of cloth.
2. Send an e-cards opposed to having your Holiday greetings printed on paper and put into a paper envelope.
3. Go for the veggies on the Christmas table and eat less meat.
4. Separate the trash you make and recycle what can be recycled.
5. Wrap presents with fabric gift bags