Gift Ideas - Just a Token

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For the person who recycles everything (bottles, paper, plastics, etc.) here’s your chance to show them where all those recycled products go.

Gift Ideas

Think about things that someone who aspires to be more eco-friendly would love to receive or do.
- Activities: a hike in the woods, botanical gardens, gardening classes or simply make your community a bit greener by picking up some trash.
- Clothing and accessories made from renewable resources like bamboo.
- Eat at a restaurant that uses locally grown products or buy your giftee a gift card for a local organic market.
- Plan an eco-friendly trip (eg: close by, eco-friendly lodges).
- Opt for eco-friendly gifts like e-readers, travel mugs, furniture made of reclaimed wood and gardening supplies. An online search will reveal tonnes of options, but here are a few great examples of what’s being done with recycled products:
  - Paper products = magazines, berry boxes,
  - Aluminum cans = new aluminum cans, i.e. pop and beer, baseball bats, cameras
  - Metal cans = bike parts, car parts, appliances
  - Plastic bottles = back packs, sleeping bag and winter jacket insulation, polar fleece clothing, frisbees, children’s play sets and toys, stadium seats (which could equate tickets to a sporting or cultural event)
  - Leftover, excess or obsolete vehicle airbags = Keen brand bags and wallets (http://www.keenfootwear.com/en-ca/products/bags/140,3485)
  - Scraps of excess shoe leather eliminated because it had natural blemishes = Looptworks brand leather iPad covers (https://www.looptworks.com/collections/upcycled-laptop-tablet-cases)
Recycling has always been associated with the colour green so anything of that colour could be worked into the theme. For example: if your giftee has a favourite sports team that wears green, you can work some tickets to a game into the gift. Other options: plants, an emerald, a trip to Ireland, a game of golf (spend some time on the green)…
Stuck for ideas? There are many charities devoted to improving our environment, consider making a donation to one of them on your giftee’s behalf.

Wrapping

Use paper that is blatantly labelled “…recycled…”
Ever wonder what to do with those little and/or irregularly sized scraps of wrapping paper that you have leftover from wrapping other presents? Grab a bunch of them, tape them together and wrap your gift in that. You can tell the giftee that they’ve helped keep all that paper out of landfills.
Wrap the present in one of the recycled material bags that you would get at a grocery store or industry/home show.
The paper used could be:
- Recycled paper
- A piece of paper that has something on the other side, like a printed e-mail, an advertisement flyer with print/picture on only one side, an old household bill.

Presentation

If you choose to purchase a card for your recipient, rather than writing on the card itself you could write their name and whatever message you have for them on a post it note and placing that in the card and on the envelope. That way they can recycle the card and give it to someone else!
Use quotes or phrases that relate to your theme when you present the gifts or in your card. For example:
- Thanks for making our planet a little greener.
- Earth day, every day.
- Good planets are hard to find.
- Give a hoot, don’t pollute.
- “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~John Muir
At the bottom of the page, a note like the following could be included. “PS. All the words used in the above message have been recycled from previously issued notes and existing sentiments.”

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