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It is decorated with brown and red festive candy cane stripes. Each bag has cutting lines where shoppers can transform the bag into beautiful recycled wrapping paper. These bags are 100 per cent ...

A Woolworths shopper was surprised to discover that the stores limited edition Christmas themed shopping bags is the perfect wrapping paper option. The 20c recyclable bags have been praised as a ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be the most wasteful. Wrapping paper, gift bags, packaging and cards can pile up quickly during the holiday season, so we ...

WHICH WRAPPING PAPER IS BEST? Want to make your gift look its very best? Wrapping paper does more than conceal your present — it helps build excitement leading up to the big reveal. Whether you’re ...

Ivan Decker and Charlie Demers get on a roll over which is the superior means for packaging presents: gift bags or wrapping paper. Ivan Decker strongly supports gift bags and gives wrapping paper a ...

As Christmas Day comes to a close, so many of our homes will be filled with piles and piles of holiday wrapping scraps. We’ll tell you how to properly dispose of all this waste — what can be recycled ...