Go green with festivities and gift wrappings

Some of the items I am likely to gift people this season are clothes, shoes, handbags, belts, or books. Most will be new, hence wrapped. A most likely scenario in my village is the wrappings flying past our fence to distant neighbours' homes. Before you know it, a goat or cow will be endlessly chewing a piece of plastic bag somewhere, or a farmer struggling to pull one from their cow's throat. We forget about waste management as soon as we leave our city houses.