Creative Ways to Reuse Your Christmas Basket

December 3rd, 2019 Posted by Gift Flowers

Wrapping gifts before giving them out is a great way of presenting gifts. There’s a wide range of designs, colours, and finishes of gift baskets that you can choose from. Everyone is always looking forward to getting gifts during Christmas. However, people don’t pay much attention to what to do with all the baskets and wrapping material afterward. We need to be more aware of how important it is to reuse all these packaging materials. In this article, we’ll look at why it’s important to recycle the gift boxes and wrappers.

Are All Types of Gift Baskets and Wrappers Recyclable?

Once everybody is done exchanging gifts and unwrapping them, there’s a whole heap of wrappers left. It makes sense to upcycle the baskets into more reusable form like storage containers.

The good thing about most types of gift wrappers and baskets is that they’re very durable which means that they can be recycled severally before they start to look worn out.

Ways in Which You Can Recycle

The easiest and most sensible way of reusing gift baskets and wrappers on a budget is by using them to wrap another gift for a friend or relative. You may also reuse the ribbons and other decorations to add elegance to the present. Alternatively, you could use the gift wrap to make a variety of crafts for decoration purposes.

Instead of throwing away the basket, use if to make stylish storage shelves that you can use around your house or office. These may be used to hold fruits, your children’s toys, paperwork, etc.

What Are the Benefits of Recycling?

Besides recycling Christmas gift baskets, there are numerous benefits associated with reducing, recycling, and reusing in general. They include:

1. It conserves the natural environment and saves energy because there’s a reduced need to always get raw materials every other time. Making items from already existing materials requires less energy as compared to making them from scratch.
2. The amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators is reduced. As a result, the harmful damage to natural resources is greatly reduced. Besides it being a waste of “valuable waste,’ dumping waste in landfills or burning it uses up so much space and produces carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
3. It prevents pollution and therefore, protects ecosystems. Ultimately, there’s minimal pollution of water, soil, and air.
4. Recycling is an eco-friendly habit that saves trees and forests. Even though new trees can be planted, it’s very hard to replace the indigenous forests once they are destroyed.
5. Recycling is generally cheaper as compared to waste collection and disposal.

Smart Tips for Christmas Recycling

We came up with a few tips to help you ensure that everything goes where it’s supposed to after the gifts are unwrapped and removed from the gift baskets. They are:

• Sort the gift baskets as soon as the gifts are unwrapped. Make sure that you do it yourself so that you know exactly where everything is.
• If there are any non-recyclable items that are attached to baskets, separate them.
• If you have no idea on how to go about with the recycling process, check our YouTube channel for some DIY storage ideas to guide you on how to make some creative handmade crafts.

Recycling Has Great Environmental Importance

When we recycle, we keep waste out of the environment. The truth is that we should all create the practice of using less and recycling as much as possible to minimize waste. Some gift-wrapping material that may be recycled includes gift baskets, boxes, gift bags, cards, ribbons, and bows. One of the easiest ways to leave an impact in the world is to recycle as much as possible. Too much waste has been accumulating and this has had a negative effect on the environment. As you enjoy the festive season, think about other people; purpose to preserve the environment for future generations.