Kudos to Marin Sanitary Service for their great ideas on ways to increase recycling and reduce your holiday waste. Some of their ideas reprinted here: 1. When shopping for your gifts, bring your own bags. 2. Reuse or recycle baskets, tins or boxes from year to year when wrapping gifts. 3. Try to find tags and cards that are printed on recycled paper, or use partial post-consumer materials or make your own! 4. Wrap gifts in recycled paper - or get creative! Use magazines, kids

Gift Wrap Central! You’ve started the shopping - now time to wrap up those gifts before little eyes discover them, right? Here are a few tips to help keep wrapping easy as 1-2-3. ONE. Keep all your holiday wrapping supplies together - not mixed in with your regular gift wrap. That way, everything is ready when you need it: holiday gift cards, ribbon, wrapping paper, tissue. I also throw in an extra pair of scissors, hole punch, festive pens and pencils, stamps and a few rol