In her letter to the editor, Jennifer Clark writes, "We have had a positive response from our business community, with endorsements from 30+ retailers from Guido’s to Soco to Domaney’s."
Check with your town, but most paper and tissue gift wrappings, as well as cards, are recyclable as long as they don’t contain foil, metallic inks or glitter. And all those cardboard shipping boxes could make a great first layer of sheet mulching next spring.