how to upcycle your Christmas rubbish

For a few years now I stopped using regular wrapping paper for Christmas presents. I use recycled brown paper and decorate it with Christmassy stamps (Bobcat likes to help with this), jute string and whatever I find around the house: a candy cane, a little bit of evergreens, used ribbons or wooden Christmas tree ornaments. But it’s still paper and still ends up in the recycling bin. The amount of waste we produce on Christmas Day is absolutely shocking. Only in the UK, we throw away a whopping 108 million rolls of wrapping paper! And that’s not including all the …