Between higher prices, storage headaches, and overflowing trash bins, a lot of households are ditching traditional gift wrap.

Growing unease about waste has some Americans rethinking wrapping paper. Gift wrap is still a huge business. U.S. sales of wrapping paper climbed 4% to $8.14 billion last year, according to a recent ...

The sight of torn gift-wrap spilling out of crammed trash bins on Dec. 26, 2001, was enough to quash Kathryn Hapke-Miner’s holiday spirit and to prompt her to find an alternative. The environmentally ...

When putting together a gift basket (don't forget to get them secondhand while you're thrifting), place a vintage square in ...

Save yourself the Christmas day headache of sorting through discarded wrapping paper, trying to discern which is recyclable and which is destined for landfill, by switching to reusable furoshiki ...

Upcycling materials like old maps, newspapers, or magazines is another creative way to wrap gifts sustainably. These ...

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A gift wrap rental service has launched for Christmas to encourage shoppers to wrap gifts sustainably with no waste, and at a fraction of the cost of buying and owning it. Wrag Wrap, the social ...

Chances are that a lot of us will be wrapping some last-minute gifts this weekend, whether we’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or Festivus. Rather than going for regular store-bought wrapping ...

With Christmas just days away, it's time to get down to business and roll out the gift wrap. But what to do when there's an oddly shaped present like a ball, a bicycle, luggage or tiny jewelry without ...