Winter Holiday Section
Page 8 n THE ASIAN REPORTER
December 17, 2018
Wrapping up the holidays in an eco-friendly way
GREENING-UP GIVING. Paper by Wrappily (pictured) is printed
on underutilized newspaper presses in Washington state. Founder Sara
Smith says “At its core, gifting is based on thoughtfulness, but for many,
ending a gift exchange by sending a pile of trash to a landfill dampens
the joy. Wrappily offers a solution that is thoughtfully made, environmen-
tally responsible, and 100-percent recyclable/compostable.” (Kirsty
Copperfield/Wrappily via AP)
By Kim Cook
The Associated Press
or many of us, wrapping gifts is even more fun
than giving them. But each year, we throw away
miles and miles of wrapping paper, much of which
can’t be recycled because of inks, coatings, or other
additives.
If you want to make a gift to the environment at the
same time you’re giving to others, choose any of a variety
of smart, stylish, and eco-friendly ways to gift-wrap this
year.
To really get on the eco express, wrap gifts in vintage
road maps, pages from old books, newspaper comics,
foreign language newspapers, kids’ drawings, or brown
paper bags. Clean and reuse tins, bottles, or packaging
from favorite stores. Or borrow the Japanese tradition of
furoshiki, wrapping gifts in fabric by using scarves, thin
blankets, tea towels, or other eye-catching pieces of
material.
But there’s also a growing number of eco-friendly
papers out there.
Sara Smith of Maui, Hawai‘i, founded the company
Wrappily in an effort to “green-up giving.”
“After learning that gift wrap generates over 4 million
tons of trash every year, I had a ‘what-if’ realization: What
if wrapping paper could be printed on a newspaper press,
so it was made locally and easy to recycle?” she said. She
set up her supply chain, milling, printing, and packaging
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in Washington state.
“I’m certain no one has over-thought wrapping paper to
the extent I have,” she laughs.
She promotes indie artists and prints the designs on
uncoated, 100-percent recyclable and compostable
newsprint. Wrappily offers customized papers as well as
ready-to-ship, printed ones. For example, there are birch
tree, reindeer, and argyle-knit motifs by artist Nadia
Give blood.
Hassan of Greensboro, North Carolina, and festive,
midcentury-modern geometrics from Manhattan studio
Hour of Nine. There’s a modern take on Scandinavian folk
art from Dutch designer Tamara Houtveen in a zingy
palette of pinks, reds, blues, and citron.
At The Container Store, designs this season include a
tailored antler print in warm navy and tan hues; a retro
Rudolph pattern; and a cozy snowflake pattern on a gray,
cable-knit printed background — all printed either on
recycled paper or recycled cotton.
Paper Source partners with mills and printers that
follow sustainability practices. The company also
recycles, donates, or reuses all its scrap paper.
At Grandin Road, there’s a black-and-tan or red-and-
gold geometric print on paper that’s made from the bark of
the Lokta bush in Nepal. Sales help support a women’s
co-op in a region of that country that was ravaged by a
2015 earthquake.
Bloomin, a Colorado company, offers seed paper: richly
colored sheets made from recycled paper pulp embedded
with flower, vegetable, herb, grass, and tree seeds. You
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