It’s the season of giving, and everyone is rushing from store to store to find gifts for each friend and family member. As is tradition, most of these gifts will be wrapped hours before being given, only for that wrapping paper to be torn up and thrown out. Americans spend millions of dollars every year on wrapping paper alone. Even greater than the yearly monetary cost, though, is the environmental cost. Wrapping paper is almost always used only once before being thrown in the trash. While some of you may be thinking you are doing good by recycling it, most wrapping paper actually can’t be recycled. The dyes, glitter, plastic,…