Look at all of that -- diaper packaging, electronic wrap, the plastic wrap from around paper towels -- all stuff that I have thrown in the trash at one point or another because I had no idea how to recycle it.

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They even came with a plastic bag for easy transportation and tissue paper to wrap them.

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Wrap the items in waxed paper before putting them into the cake.

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If you really must keep one credit card in your wallet, wrap a piece of red paper around it and write in big, bold letters EMERGENCY.

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The paper comes in a wrap-around cover which shows the couple driving from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House in Prince Charles' Aston Martin, describing it as "one of many such small moments that revealed a new brand of royalty".

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One was wrapped in brown paper and the other in a page taken from a magazine - both were sitting in sheets of bubble wrap.

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