5 Eco-Friendly Ways To Wrap Your Presents This Holiday Season

Love the ease of a gift bag but hate the fact that tissue paper is not recyclable? Well, so do the inventors of Tokki – a beautiful, sustainable bag made from three recycled water bottles, a snap close top, and a shareable QR greeting card you can customize for your recipient. Send a bag of cookies with a video explaining the recipe to your family across the country. Give swag from a concert with a link to a Spotify playlist to a friend. The possibilities are endless!

Haunted by visions of "used, crinkly, glitter-full Santa paper rolling like tumbleweeds across a desolate wasteland of trash," the women behind Tokki, which means "rabbit" in Korean, wanted to create a new gift wrapping tradition that could "hop" from recipient to recipient, eventually traversing the world in a virtuous cycle of reuse. For those reusing the paper they still have, Tokki even offers QR bows that can be attached to any gift for any occasion. Based on their estimates, if Americans used a Tokki gift bag for just one out of three gifts, this year alone we could prevent 45,000 football fields' worth of paper from winding up in landfills (via Tokki). What a fun and simple way to show those you love exactly how you feel and help reduce waste.