Amazon has been accused of “chopping down the rainforest” for using up to 45 feet of paper packaging to protect a wall calendar. A number of customers have been left scratching their he… ...

Super thin wrapping paper, for example, ... Crumple a piece of the wrapping paper in question. If it stays scrunched, it’s good to recycle. If it springs back flat, ...

Sometimes, wrapping paper will be labeled as recyclable—once you remove extras like tape, you’ll be able to recycle it. If your paper isn’t labeled as recycle safe, try the scrunch test .

We throw away an estimated 227,000 miles of wrapping paper each year at Christmas in the UK, ... If it scrunches, and stays scrunched, it can probably be recycled, external.

Wrapping paper is also very thin and doesn't contain a lot of good quality fibres for recycling ... If it stays scrunched together in a ball it can probably be recycled.

This weekend is prime present wrapping time. But whether you did yours back in October or are saving it all for Christmas Eve, find out which types of wrapping paper are recyclable, and how retailers ...