Reuse and Recycle for the Holidays!

Here are some items from the UNCG Office of Sustainability Newsletter:

Trash from holiday wrapping paper totals over 4 million tons each year. Wrap your gifts in used wrapping paper! 

If every American family wrapped just 3 presents in reused materials instead of newly bought wrapping paper, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields.

If every family in the U.S. reused two feet of holiday ribbon, it would save 38,000 miles of ribbon – enough to tie a bow around the entire planet.


You can reuse wrapping paper and gift bags, and both can be recycled in the commingled recycling bins.


For lots more sustainability tips, subscribe to the UNCG Office of Sustainability Newsletter.

Have a great holiday!