The sight of torn gift-wrap spilling out of crammed trash bins on Dec. 26, 2001, was enough to quash Kathryn Hapke-Miner’s holiday spirit and to prompt her to find an alternative. The environmentally ...

A gift wrap rental service has launched for Christmas to encourage shoppers to wrap gifts sustainably with no waste, and at a fraction of the cost of buying and owning it. Wrag Wrap, the social ...

Growing unease about waste has some Americans rethinking wrapping paper. Gift wrap is still a huge business. U.S. sales of wrapping paper climbed 4% to $8.14 billion last year, according to a recent ...

Chances are that a lot of us will be wrapping some last-minute gifts this weekend, whether we’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or Festivus. Rather than going for regular store-bought wrapping ...

Save yourself the Christmas day headache of sorting through discarded wrapping paper, trying to discern which is recyclable and which is destined for landfill, by switching to reusable furoshiki ...

Keiko Furoshiki is a family business reimagining the centuries-old Japanese tradition of furoshiki. Furoshiki translates to “bath spread,” a reference to the practice’s origins: using cloth to ...

The first wrapped gifts actually weren't wrapped in paper! I look forward to giving Christmas gifts all year. Part of the thrill is finding the perfect gift for the hard-to-shop-for friend or family ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images My personal love language is and always has been gift-giving. There's just ...

Last year it was estimated that Brits would throw out 108 million rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. That’s a lot of waste. Even the most well-intentioned of us may be unaware that the wrap we put in ...