Well, the holidays are coming, which means it's time to buy gifts for our family and friends and wrap them in eco-friendly wrapping. All these gifts are wrapped in beautiful decorative paper. Cutting and folding gifts from paper is a millennial practice that transcends all cultural and religious boundaries. Wrapping gifts has become synonymous with framing an item as a special gift between two people. An ordinary object, when wrapped up, turns it into something extraordinary.
The packaging industry is a huge industry and their turnover is high. The wrapping paperis made of light and inky color and usually does not include plastic foil, which makes recycling efficient. Some gift wraps contain plastic, but they cannot be recycled and discarded. For this reason, gift givers are turning to recyclable cards and recyclable gift wrapping. Despite the strong arguments against decorative gift wrapping, it's hard to imagine giving a gift without wrapping.
The tradition of wrapping gifts does not belong to the modern world, but it has a rich history behind it that transcends various traditions and cultures. There are many ancient cultures where festivals are celebrated by exchanging gifts. The basic desire to hide the identity of the gift until the last minute led people to use eco-friendly wrapping paper to wrap the gift. Experts also believe that the packaging of gifts began only after the invention of paper a thousand years ago. In China, about 2,000 years ago, paper was used to package precious materials and store them. Later, the imperial court gave many gifts to officials in paper envelopes. About 1,000 years ago, gift wrapping became a core principle of Japanese culture. In short, before the advent of the industrial age, people used to sharing wrapped gifts.
You might think that picking gifts for the holidays can be difficult until you start getting all the gift wrapping paper and ribbons and luxury gift wrapping, and you remember that you don't know how to properly wrap your gifts. To avoid packaging, some of them resort to gift baskets or gift bags. There are many ways to wrap gifts professionally; The steps are described below.
Place the gift box on top of the wrapping paper and attach the paper to the roll. With the help of scissors, cut the paper along one side. The paper should be cut wide enough to cover the box from both sides.
Tighten the paper onto the gift box and glue it to double-sided tape. Crease the paper by hand along the edge of the box.
Connect both ends of the paper and close the open ends of the paper by creating a 45-degree angle flap that pushes the paper inward. Then crumple the paper with your thumb.
Once you are done packing, remove the excess paper by folding it under the bottom flap and attach the tape to the bottom flap. Complete the procedure on the other side as well.
During the holidays, families throw away more trash than at any other time of the year. A large portion of the intimidating numbers include the materials used to wrap the gift. Shiny decorative gift paper, ribbons, etc. cannot be recycled and end up in landfills. The biggest problem is buying too much of these non-recyclable packaging materials and then throwing them away once the gift is unpacked. Due to the increasing landfill of non-recyclable gift wrapping paper, new eco-gift wrapping materials are being used as an alternative solution for wrapping paper.
