![]() Nearly everything I use is recycled, reclaimed, and re-used to exhaustion. I’m supporting charity and recycling the clothes. They give me a huge garbage bag of un-sellable t-shirts (dirty, rude, whatever) for £1-2. Again, things people would have thrown away. Also, I get my rags from a local charity shop. Why not find a local business or shop and ask for their packing? Most businesses throw it away or pay to recycle it anyway. So that £40 on bubblewrap is about all my packing costs for the year. I also use packing peanuts and those air-filled pillows if they happen to come in one of our deliveries. I reuse it SO much! Carrying around my painting in town a lot it’s the only thing I’ve found that will protect my canvases from bumps (they are usually on one of those luggage trolleys). I don’t understand why everyone says bubblewrap is a ‘waste’. Bubblewrap is reuseable – I can use it to bring work to and from gallery and fairs, in the car when taking to exhibitions, to wrap same paintings when they sell, and when it gets a bit grubby it can be cut up and used for the sides and corners as buffer materials. The rest I ‘recycle’ from the many packages we get in our gallery shop (we buy gifts and glass and stuff year-round). ![]() Bubblewrap I buy about 2 rolls a year (£40 max). ![]() It increases the weight a lot for larger international packages, which I learned with one shipment that ended up being very expensive. I don’t want to buy newspapers because I’d use a lot of it and don’t usually buy it. Many reasons really – I’ve not found anything that absorbs shock as well – not just in the post but when transporting them myself too. I wrap my paintings in brown craft paper first, wax or freezer paper should work too. ![]()
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