Zero-Waste Gift Wrap: Recycled Paper and Fabric Wrap
Traditional gift wrap is made from virgin paper, which means chopping down trees to make it. These trees are often from Boreal forests in northern Europe, home to moose, elk, wolves and grizzly bears. Choosing post-consumer gift wrap saves trees, and helps to therefore reduce climate emissions.
If not good enough to use again, just recycle at kerbside bins (scrunch it into a ball – if it stays scrunched, it’s good to go). You can’t recycle gift wrap with glitter or plastic coating, it has to be binned. That’s why it’s such a good idea to buy recycled gift wrap like this one!
Good Tuesday is a Cornish brand of zero waste gift wrap (and many other paper goods). Everything is printed on recycled paper or card. And everything is also beautifully and uniquely designed.
This vibrant sun pattern gift wrap on a soft peachy backdrop is a playful choice to wrap your zero waste gifts. Use with plastic-free packing tape.
Also read up on keeping pets safe at Christmas (many plants including holly, mistletoe and poinsetta are unsafe).
Other designs for Good Tuesday gift wrap
Choose sunset peach for autumn gifts
Also in a colourful harlequin design.
Tidal berry has a fun check design
Wildlife & Welfare gift wrap (helps animals in Ukraine)
Wildlife & Welfare gift wrap is printed on recycled paper (to save trees). And is available in a myriad of beautiful designs. From baby elephants to Southwold seagulls! Printed in the UK with vegetable inks.
This gift wrap is sold by a charity, which uses profits to help animals abroad. It’s main three projects are:
- Offering emergency vet care, food and sterilisation clinics to help animals affected by the war in Ukraine.
- Providing free vet care to indigenous communities in Australia, to reduce the number of stray dogs and lower the risk of zoonotic diseases.
- Helping animals during earthquakes, such as one recent event in Turkey.
- Read of more ways to help stray dogs in Eastern Europe.
Wonderful whales gift wrap
This gorgeous whales gift wrap is printed on recycled paper, perfect to wrap any zero waste gift, and to make someone smile. Printed with vegetable inks, this is printed local to the maker, by a company with a carbon-balanced footprint. Folded wraps are sent in recycled hard-backed envelopes.
Beautiful floral gift wraps
This ‘floral riot’ gift wrap is printed on high quality recycled paper and uses vegetable inks. The design is for anyone who loves pink or flowers, or both!
The sheets are folded, and posted in a protected envelope. You can upgrade shipping, if you want the sheets rolled and sent in a tube). Made in Wales.
Also in other designs:
- Cottage garden
- Bountiful blooms (black background)
This luxury flowers gift wrap is made from quality recycled paper, sold in sets of two sheets. It features an allover floral pattern of a mix of wildflowers, daisies, stems and leaves. Ideal for any female recipient, and makes a great gift wrap for Mother’s Day. Printed in the UK with vegetable inks.
This floral gift wrap is printed on high quality recycled paper, to save trees. The beautiful mustard colour is really unique, and lovely to wrap your zero waste gifts for loved ones. Sold in a set of three (order in bulk to save on shipping, as listings are for one sheet – sent from Latvia).
Also available with
This wild recycled gift wrap is printed on quality recycled paper, and features a folk design of forests, rivers and skies, filled with birds, elk, swans and geometric trees. All illustrated in shades of blue, jade, green and pistachio.
You can buy matching gift tags, with naturally coloured twine.
This gift wrapping paper features a folk design of forests, rivers and skies filled with birds, elk, swans and geometric trees. Illustrated in shades of blue, jade, green and pistachio.
Eco Christmas gift wrap
Happywrap Christmas snowflake gift wrap is made from recycled paper and printed with vegetable inks. These paper gift wraps arrive folded. For orders of six sheets or more, orders are automatically rolled.
You can also select orders with twin to receive a 10 metre skein of fair trade hemp twine to wrap your gifts (add a message at checkout for choice of colours). Keep twine away from young children and pets.
For celebrations outside Christmas, there is also a lovely turtle gift wrap which features also seahorses, fish and shells, on a Kraft brown background). Each sheet includes two matching tags. Also in green.
This set of recycled Christmas Robin gift tags (sold in a set of six) are ideal to attach to your eco-friendly Christmas gift wrap, so everyone knows whose gift is whose!
The round tags feature a festive bird and geometric pattern in festive colours of red, orange and green. And a message of ‘Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year’. The tags hang by pieces of red, orange and green ribbon, and are sent in zero waste packaging.
Reusable fabric gift wrap
Happywrap is a wonderful invention, inspired by a Japanese art of wrapping gifts with no need for paper or tape. Made from cotton, this wrap includes attached cotton cord on opposite corners, making it easy to wrap your gifts with tape, scissors or waste.
The recipient simply unwraps the gift. If they are not local to you, they can store it away and gift it to someone else. Or if say family, just unwrap and then store away in a cupboard, to wrap the next gift.
The wrap includes an illustrated wrapping guide. The gift can be washed if required, wash dark colours separately.
Also available as:
- Damask (ivory and sage print with Panama weave)
- Christmas (reindeer designs, choose from red or grey)
Small Happywrap is for:
- A bottle of wine
- A pair of gloves
- Books or DVDS
- A bracelet or watch box
- Organic cologne or perfume
- A vegan clutch bag
Medium Happywrap is for:
- A shoe board
- A board game
- A shirt
- Boxed gadgets
- A portable radio
- Sent in plastic-free packaging
